{"product_id":"plato-on-comedy-and-tragedy-the-role-of-drama-in-the-pursuit-of-happiness-9781009360135","title":"Plato on Comedy and Tragedy: The Role of Drama in the Pursuit of Happiness","description":"For Plato, tragedy and comedy are meaningful generic forms with proto-philosophical content concerning the moral character of their protagonists. He operates with a distinction between actual drama, the comedy and tragedy of the fourth and fifth centuries BCE, and ideal drama, the norm for what comedy and tragedy ought to be like. In this book Franco Trivigno reconstructs, on Plato's behalf, an original philosophical account of tragedy and comedy and illustrates the interpretive value of reading Plato's dialogues from this perspective. He offers detailed analyses of individual dialogues as instances of ideal comedy and tragedy, with attention to their structure and philosophical content; he also reconstructs Plato's ideals of comedy and tragedy by formulating definitions of each genre, specifying their norms, and showing how the two genres are related to each other. His book will be valuable for a range of readers interested in Plato and in Greek drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrivigno, Franco V.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Franco V. Trivigno is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Plato's Ion: Poetry, Expertise and Inspiration (Cambridge, 2020), and the co-editor of The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness (2014), and Laughter, Humor and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy (2019).","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705101189394,"sku":"9781009360135","price":117.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24ae5d7c-c492-45b7-bcdb-cf7dce74638e.jpg?v=1762340550","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/plato-on-comedy-and-tragedy-the-role-of-drama-in-the-pursuit-of-happiness-9781009360135","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}