Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare and Richard McCabe as Ben Jonson in Edward Bond’s Bingo (Chichester, 2010)
AQA (B): Paper 1 Comparative text for choice: ‘Tragedy’
Anyone studying a tragedy may well be asked to consider the central character’s ‘fatal flaw’ and whether he or she is guilty of ‘hubris’ — defiance of what the gods or fate have decreed. Or they may be asked to consider the ‘pity and terror’ an audience feels and the ‘cathartic’ effect of the story. All of these concepts are derived from the Poetics, the surviving work of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–22 BCE). All have been treated with great respect — and all have been argued over.
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