Date of Award

6-1926

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Second Advisor

William M. Magee

Abstract

The first draft of this essay began thus: "Aristotle, in his 'Poetics', when discussing tragedy, treats the elements of that dramatic form under four heads, to wit: objects, medium, manner of representation, and function. We are interested in the first of the above-mentioned: objects. For we intend to trace the essential differences in the muthos, drama, dianoia, and ethe, of Sophoclean tragedy as against "Shakespearean." The writer then continued with an apology of reasons why he was not going to treat all four tragic elements! As he progressed in the work as first conceived, however, he discovered that even with the restriction to objects, he could not nearly do justice to the task. He thereupon further narrowed his thesis to a treatment of the drama (in the Aristotelian sense of the word) of Sophoclean and Shakespearean tragedy, exclusively. And as he proceeded along that line, he came to regret that he had not restricted himself to a consideration of some one part­icular tragedy of Sophocles and some one particular tragedy of Shakespeare, instead of taking all the Sophoclean and the four great Shakespearean tragedies for his province.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to Fulfill the Requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University

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