Plot and Passions in Comedy: Aristotle's Poetics and Some Comic Plays by Lope de Vega

What is it about?

I hypothetize the theory of comedy that Aristotle might have laid bare in the lost second book of his Poetics. My approach is based mainly in the hints he gives in the extant text (book 1), and in the theory of passions displayed in his Rhetoric. Then I contrast my hypotheses with several comic plays by Lope de Vega, in order to refute/nuance/corroborate them.

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Why is it important?

It is an original approach to Aristotle's theory of comedy. Other approaches are based on other facts, such as the Tractatus Coislinianus and the Peripatetic theory of laughter.