THE 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Poetic Justice

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Theatre and Dance
• Course: THE 2000
• Professor: Mitchell, Charles

Document Summary

9:53 am: greek kind", tragic a. i. imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude (important people) a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. Fate, order, the cosmos, identification, suffering, nobility of humankind, individual. Imitation of characters of lower type with defect that is not destructive. Fortune, chaos, the body, detachment pleasure, faults of humankind, society. Comedy represents men as worse than they are. Nothing is comic outside of what is exclusively human a. i. 2. a. i. 3. Establishment of superiority humor derives from the weakness of others. Incongruity surprising, illogical or unexpected juxtaposition of ideas/situations. Life is a game best player wins a. i. 3. a. i. 4. Makes light of serious, disturbing matter: melodrama a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. a. v. a. vi. a. vii. a. ii. Good or bad, simple characters: realism a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. a. v. a. vi, naturalism. Focus on genuine social concerns a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. a. v. a. vi. a. i.