...pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear...pleasurable accessories' I mean that with rhythm and harmony of song superadded; and by 'the kinds separately' I mean that some portions are worked out with verse...

...LESSING'S INTERPRETATION OF ARISTOTLE1. III. THE DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY. ' A TRAGEDY,' says Aristotle, ' is the imitation of an action that is serious and...fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions2.' The chief difficulty of the definition lies in its last words : Si" è\éov Kai (jioßov...

...LESSING'S INTERPRETATION OF ARISTOTLE1. III. THE DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY. ' A TRAGEDY,' says Aristotle, ' is the imitation of an action that is serious and...fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions2.' The chief difficulty of the definition lies in its last words : &i e\eov Kal <f>6/3ov irepaivovira...

...Tragedy ; before doing so, however, we must gather up the definition resulting from what has been said. A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that...such emotions. ^ Here by ' language with pleasurable accessories'1 I mean that with rhythm and harmony or song superadded ; and by ' the kinds separately...

...of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with 25 pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately...accessories ' I mean that with rhythm and harmony or song superaddcd ; and by 'the kinds separately ' I mean that some portions arc worked out with 30 verse...

...Aristotle's famous definition of tragedy, in Poet., c. 6, 1449b, 24 f. is as follows : " A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and...incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish the catharsis of such emotions " (tr. Bywater). The second clause refers to the admixture of choric...

...from what has been said. A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious 1 and also complete in itself ; in language with pleasurable...arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its purgation 2 of such emotions. Here by ' language with pleasurable accessories ' I mean that with rhythm...

...characteristic of Tragedy." 6 Bywater also does it when he translates: "A tragedy, then, is the imitation . . .; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions." In his note on the passage Bywater says that for the concluding clause of the definition "we have not...

...serious poetry could be made an important means in accomplishing this end. So he speaks of tragedy as "the imitation of an action that is serious and also,...arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its katharsis of the emotions." While it is not just clear whether this is to be given a religious or medical...

...'the imitation of an action that is serious, and also as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions' (Bywater translation, section 6). What is the meaning of the genitive link? Are the emotions purged,...