Watching a tragic play acted live on a stage has slowly lost popularity over time. As a result, the tragedy genre has had to adapt to the modernisation of visual entertainment by being presented through the medium of film. Though this transition drastically alters the audience’s experience with a tragic text, the same core conventions […]
An essential ingredient necessary for creating an Aristotelian tragedy is the tragic hero. Aristotle enforces this in ‘Poetics’, the recipe book of the tragic genre, a book which Shakespeare has clearly followed whilst constructing his tragedy ‘King Lear’. In Aristotle’s eyes, the plot is the soul of the tragedy, the outline that guides the particular […]