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Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics , written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental one we have. It has been used by both playwrights and theorists of many periods, and interpreted, in the course of its two thousand... read more

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It may be no more than fanciful, and it is certainly chronologically difficult, to suppose that when near the end of his Republic Plato issued the challenge which forms the epigraph to this chapter, he had already encountered resistance to his view of poetry from the young Aristotle.
 

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