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Slide 1: History
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Slide 2: Staging the Illiad-- according to Lowe, 5th century Greek Tragedy was less about concern with psychological effect than it was with expressing and understanding certain ideals of the Greek heroic tradition. Example: Aeschylus's trilogy-- the very first-- of the Illiad.
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Slide 3: Aristotle's Poetics -- trying to come up with a metalanguage to describe storytelling, and using it on tragedy as a test case. Notice how the system is primarily defined in terms of how these techniques might articulate a particular band of the emotional frequency, rather than, for example, deliver any kind of ideology.