The birth of the tragedy according to J. C. Scaliger’s Poetics

María Nieves Muñoz Martín

doi:10.34624/agora.v0i13.10131

The birth of the tragedy according to J. C. Scaliger’s Poetics

Authors

María Nieves Muñoz Martín University of Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.v0i13.10131

Keywords:

Humanism, Renaissance poetics, Dramatic Genres, Scaliger

Abstract

The catalogue of genres presented by Scaliger in book 1, 4 et seq. of Poetics, is organized chronologically and describes the origin of various poetic forms based on the most primitive life styles. The theoretician is consistent with his system in that he justifies the origin of the tragedy in the comedy, as well as offering a definition of the tragedy different to the one advocated for by Aristotle.