Plato on Comedy and Tragedy
The Role of Drama in the Pursuit of Happiness
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- ISBN 9781009360135
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 592 g
- Language English 780
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Short description:
Formulates Plato's theory of comedy and tragedy and argues that his dialogues exemplify an ideal form of comedy and tragedy.
MoreLong description:
For Plato, tragedy and comedy are meaningful generic forms with proto-philosophical content concerning the moral character of their protagonists. He operates with a distinction between actual drama, the comedy and tragedy of the fourth and fifth centuries BCE, and ideal drama, the norm for what comedy and tragedy ought to be like. In this book Franco Trivigno reconstructs, on Plato's behalf, an original philosophical account of tragedy and comedy and illustrates the interpretive value of reading Plato's dialogues from this perspective. He offers detailed analyses of individual dialogues as instances of ideal comedy and tragedy, with attention to their structure and philosophical content; he also reconstructs Plato's ideals of comedy and tragedy by formulating definitions of each genre, specifying their norms, and showing how the two genres are related to each other. His book will be valuable for a range of readers interested in Plato and in Greek drama.
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Introduction; 1. Plato's definition of comedy; 2. Comedic characterization in Plato's Euthydemus; 3. Parody in Plato's Cratylus; 4. Plato's definition of tragedy; 5. Tragedy and the best life in Plato's Gorgias; 6. Tragedy and death in Plato's Phaedo; 7. The unity of comedy and tragedy in the symposium.
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