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Aristotle’s Aesthetiquette
edy was better for ultimately validating the virtues of social intercourse,
then they would make comedy better. So it may be that comedy
became polite in order to take its place alongside tragedy and epic, and
thereby made good taste a general concept of aesthetics.
Notes
1. Richard Janko, Aristotle on Comedy (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1985).
2. Tractatus Coislinianus 7. Richard Janko has edited and translated TC in
his translations of Aristotle’s Poetics (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1987), p. 45.
3. Ibid., p. 46.
4. Thomas R. Banks, “Aristohpanes’ Wasps and the Aristophanic Comedy
of Ideas,” in The Masks of Comedy, ed. Ann Boaden (Rock Island, IL:
Augustana College Library, 1980), pp. 13–22.
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