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A topic within Theatre History & Traditions, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
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- BookPoeticsAristotle, 335 BCE
The first systematic analysis of drama: plot above character, the unity of action, and catharsis as the point of watching people suffer.