PHILOSOPHICAL EVOLUTION OF TRAGEDY: A GENEALOGICAL APPROACH TO THE TRAGEDY CONCEPT IN TRAGIC ERA

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Moslem Aeeni, Seyed Mostafa Mokhtabad Amrei

Abstract

The evolution, metamorphosis, and transubstantiation of tragedy from Greece to the modern and postmodern
world must be traced first to Achilles, Sophocles, and Euripides, and then to comedians such as
Aristophanes and Menander to Seneca and Terence in Rome. For the same reason, there was a transition
period from the middle ages to Shakespeare and Romantic drama and Lessink. The modern world is also
associated with playwrights such as Ibsen and Strindberg, who played an important role in the next
generation developments and engaged in rebellion. The evolution of the history of tragedy, and its
conceptual transformation into tragedy in the modern and postmodern era, manifests itself in playwrights in
Europe and America. Recognizing the evolution, metamorphosis, and transubstantiation of tragedy as an
intellectual and philosophical phenomenon in its explaining, particularly modern types of tragedy and
postmodern drama are especially important. By reflecting on tragedy and tragic, and linking these concepts
to postmodern drama, one can arrive at a period of conceptual and content transition from classical to
modern and postmodern and the emergence of postmodern dramatic literature. Dramatic works of this
period and new types of tragedy are known with playwrights such as Eugene Ionesco, Bertolt Brecht,
Samuel Beckett, Heinermüller, and Harold Pinter in Europe, and Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee
Williams, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Mamet and August Wilson in America. These dramatists
made a major contribution to the spread of drama in the world, the formation and stabilization of tragedy,
and the transition to postmodern drama, and played an important role in the emergence of contemporary
drama thinking.


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