In Poetics, Aristotle always quotes Oedipus Rex as a paragon to define what might be a perfect Tragedy. It is a model play to illustrate Aristotle's rules for an ideal Tragedy. Compared with it, the Spanish Traged...In Poetics, Aristotle always quotes Oedipus Rex as a paragon to define what might be a perfect Tragedy. It is a model play to illustrate Aristotle's rules for an ideal Tragedy. Compared with it, the Spanish Tragedy indeed conceals some differences that can be traced in the process of complication in accordance with Aristotle's criteria. The paper tries to analyze some dissimilarities be?tween the two tragedies and find out some reasons accounting for the discrepancy.展开更多
文摘In Poetics, Aristotle always quotes Oedipus Rex as a paragon to define what might be a perfect Tragedy. It is a model play to illustrate Aristotle's rules for an ideal Tragedy. Compared with it, the Spanish Tragedy indeed conceals some differences that can be traced in the process of complication in accordance with Aristotle's criteria. The paper tries to analyze some dissimilarities be?tween the two tragedies and find out some reasons accounting for the discrepancy.
