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Aristotle's Poetics is an invaluable contribution to defining Western Theatre. Theatre would have existed without the return to the Greek structure that would come later. The way I see it, Western Theatre is not a collection of branches stemming from aristotle.
Aristotle's Poetics is an invaluable contribution to defining Western Theatre. Theatre would have existed without the return to the Greek structure that would come later. The way I see it, Western Theatre is not a collection of branches stemming from aristotle.
Aristotle's Poetics is an invaluable contribution to defining Western Theatre. Theatre would have existed without the return to the Greek structure that would come later. The way I see it, Western Theatre is not a collection of branches stemming from aristotle.
Drama Major 25 September 2014 Did Aristotle Make Theatre or Did Theatre Make Aristotle? While Aristotles Poetics is an invaluable contribution to defining Western Theatre today and understanding its roots, he did not spawn it, and it would have existed without him. When medieval theatre deviated from the Greek structure and instead taught lessons through miracle, morality, and mystery plays, it survived. Without the massive return to that Greek structure that would come later during the Neoclassicist period, Shakespeare included many of the elements to which Aristotle referred even if they were at times bent or skewed. Aristotle himself based his Poetics on all things organic, believing that the art created would be best if it was in line with the natural order of things, or at least the natural order of things as presented in the play. His set of personal opinions just turned out to be very good ones that were logical and made sense. This is quite fitting, since a good deal of what Aristotle said was logical and made sense, which is why we still talk about it and him today. The way I see it, Western Theatre today is not a collection of branches stemming from Aristotle, but rather, he saw the natural way things were working best, wrote them down, and effectively put a PVC barrier around the already growing tree that was drama to help it grow straight for the rest of Greek Theatre. But the theatre tree soon grew past the end of the PVC, and progressed naturally. Natural progression is not always linear, and the branching out of drama, neoclassicism and romanticism, Jacobean and Victorian styles, modern and post-modern sub-genresthe similarities and differences all of these share are like branches of a tree, which may sometimes overlap and intertwine. Its nice that Aristotle helped it along, but the rules put down by Aristotle were there before him, and had he not written about them, or had his writings on tragedy been lost, someone else would have written them down eventually, because they speak to the things which mean the most to all human beings, and there have been many people just as insightful as Aristotle throughout history. So, while Aristotle did not spawn the theatre, he guided it and protected it while it was early in its development as an art form, like sheltering a spark on tinder from a wind until it becomes a self-sustaining fire. Its pretty great for theatre in the end that he came along when he did, said what he said, and that his students were smart enough to write it down for us. If we want to look back at the roots of theatre before it began to branch out, we need not dig through all the Greek tragedies, because Aristotle already did that for us, and put all the good stuff together in the form the handy dandy Poetics.