Book · 335 BC · Nonfiction

Poetics

Name: Poetics
Author: Aristotle

Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 144 pages

★ 7.2 editorial score

Tragedy earns pity and fear through the mistake of a decent man, Aristotle argues, and plot matters more than character. Every screenwriting manual since has been repeating him.

Genre

Literary criticism

Subject

Literary theory Poetry Theater

Time

335 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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