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Without some discussion of plays, particularly of comedy and tragedy, we cannot be completely sure that Shakespeare stands in the Platonic tradition, that is, that the interpretations presented in the preceding chapters warrant a general conclusion. Two general and rather widespread beliefs are that tragedy is the highest art form and second that life is essentially tragic. The second opinion may include the first; the first need not necessarily include the second. Let us begin with the less comprehensive belief, that the play is the highest art form and that, of all plays, tragedy is the highest.
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Hegel on Tragedy, ed. by A. H Paolucci (N.Y., 1962), p. I
Jacob Klein, A Commentary on Plato’s Meno (Chapel Hill, 1965), pp. 3 ff
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way with Western Civilization (New York, 1948), p. 130.
Leo Strauss in Strauss, Cropsey, eds., History of Political Philosophy (Chicago, 1963), p. 8.
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White, H.B. (1970). The Ascent of the Soul. In: Copp’d Hills Towards Heaven Shakespeare and the Classical Polity. Archieves Internationales D’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3189-9_8
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