BRIDGE COURSE

• DO YOU ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ARISTOTLE'S DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY AND DRYDEN'S DEFINITION OF PLAY?

       

  Aristotle is possessive about the characteristics .he follows tradition. He does not mingle tragedy and comedy .dryden breaks these rules of play depicts both expression of happiness and tragedy in his play .

 Function of Dryden's theater ; it remains external to the binary structure of the definition to read a play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humar for the delight and instruc.

ARISTOTLE'S DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY 

        

        " The idea man bears the accident of life with dignity and grace , making the best of circumstances. " 

         

        A Tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude conpleted in itself ; in appropriate and pleasurable language in a dramatic rather than narrative from with incident arosuing pity and fear , where with to accomplish a  catharsis of these emotions. 

      

    Tragedy is the " IMAGINATION OF AN ACTION " according to " THE LAW OF PROBABILITY OR NECESSITY ."

   

   Aristotle indicates that the medium of tragedy is drama not narrative tragedy " SHOWS " rather than " TELLS".

DRYDEN'S DEFINITION OF PLAY 

   

   According to the defination drama is an ' IMAGE ' of' HUMAN NATURE ' and the image is 'JUST ' and ' LIVELY '  by using the word just dryden seems to implay that literature imitates human action for dryden , poetic imation is different for the imitation an exact , servile copy of reality , for the imitation is not only just it is also lively .

  

 John Dryden condemns both the ancients and the french dramatists. Because they slavishly followed the unities of Time and Place, and made their plays simple and their imagination narrow. Besides, they sacrificed many beauties by sticking up to the unities. Many of their plays were obscene and the characters unfitting.

•  what would be your preference so far as poetic or prosaic dialogues are concerned in the play ?

   I like poetry because dialogues of poetry are psychological and gives better understanding of human nature and the work of human mind. But it is also true that poetic language is hard to understand, for illiterate also and prosaic dialogues are easy to understand by every people.