In order to know in depth this literary subgenre of the dramatic genre, let’s see its most important characteristics:
#STROPHES ANTISTROPHE EPISODES SERIES#
Thus, in Rome another series of poets will appear who will work the subgenre, such as Livius Andronicus, Seneca, Trasidas of Ennius, Marcus Pachuvius, among others. With the conquest of the Roman Empire in Greece, much of Greek culture is incorporated into Roman practice, including the development of compositions and tragedy. Thus, from them, Aristotle begins to set the structure of tragedy, establishing the first text of literary theory with this subgenre. Many of these works inherit episodes from myths and religious songs used at the time, which included adventures, victories and failures of Greek heroes during the most important wars. However, his importance was such for the development of tragedy that his legacy allowed other poets to continue working on it, among them Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles. The birth of this literary subgenre appears in Ancient Greece by Thespis, a renowned poet of whom we have only fragments of his compositions. It was considered that every citizen who came out of watching a play came out a better person. What is the function of tragedy?Īlthough the tragedy will be characterized by a set of elements in which the characters express passions and all kinds of feelings conditional to the human being, the truth is that the tragedy was used in the citizens of antiquity with a character of moral and ethical training, which allowed them to obtain these teachings from the representations, the mistakes of the characters and their inevitable destinies. In this way the fall of the protagonist is progressively drawn in the tragedy and reprimanded, in many cases by the chorus as a representation of the voice of the people. Definition of the subgenre tragedyĪristotle is going to define tragedy as one of the highest artistic manifestations and representations of literature, given that it exposed the situations to the public in a direct way, without the appearance of narrators, exalting what one really is and the irreparable fall into misfortune.
The term -tragedy-, comes from the Greek tragoedia, which refers to “song of the goat”, it was a song that was sung in Athens in the festivals whose purpose was focused on the worship and honor of the god Dionysus with the offering of a goat that was sacrificed publicly. It is one of the most important literary subgenres of the dramatic genre, cultivated in antiquity and developed from a large number of exponents of Literature who will take their compositions to the stage representation basing their works on situations of fatal conflict that they must face irremediably as their destiny or the mandate of the gods, where many will end in death, exile or madness of the protagonist of the story.īecause of its origin, the term -tragedy-, has also been used to refer to a regrettable situation, unfortunate events and moments of great sadness that have the power to affect a person or a community in particular, whether natural disasters, tragic events, accidents, among others.
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