What are the six parts of tragedy in Butcher's Poetics VI, in what order are they ranked, and what reason does the text give for each rank?
Butcher's VI names six parts: Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle and Song. It ranks Plot first ('the soul of a tragedy'), Character second, Thought third and Diction fourth, then calls Song the chief embellishment and Spectacle the least artistic part. Reasons are given for the first and last places; the middle ranks are mostly definitions, not arguments.
Butcher's VI names six parts: Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle and Song. It ranks Plot first ('the soul of a tragedy'), Character second, Thought third and Diction fourth, then calls Song the chief embellishment and Spectacle the least artistic part. Reasons are given for the first and last places; the middle ranks are mostly definitions, not arguments.
Curator qualifications: Ranking reasons only at extremes; middle ranks defined not argued.
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- [sourced_fact] Butcher's VI names six parts: Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle and Song. It ranks Plot first ('the soul of a tragedy'), Character second, Thought third and Diction fourth, then calls Song the chief embellishment and Spectacle the least artistic part. Reasons are given for the first and last places; the middle ranks are mostly definitions, not arguments. · locator: VI source
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