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If you loved Poetics by Aristotle, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Aesthetics, Theater, Ancient & Classical, and Performing Arts.

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Poetics — in theme, mood, or literary style.

The Anatomy of Dance Discourse Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World — Karin Schlapbach

The Anatomy of Dance Discourse Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World

Karin Schlapbach

Themes: Aesthetics • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Three Uses of the Knife On the Nature and Purpose of Drama — David Mamet

Three Uses of the Knife On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

Themes: Aesthetics • Theater • Performing Arts

The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting — Tom Stern

The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting

Themes: Aesthetics • Theater • Performing Arts

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett’s Work — P. Stewart

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett’s Work

Themes: Aesthetics • Theater • Performing Arts

A Platonic Discourse about Some Philosophical Problems of Art, X Between a Young Man, the Student, Y, and Paul Zucker, the Author, Z — Paul Zucker

A Platonic Discourse about Some Philosophical Problems of Art, X Between a Young Man, the Student, Y, and Paul Zucker, the Author, Z

Themes: Aesthetics • Ancient & Classical • Literary Criticism

From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality — Ernest Rubinstein

From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality

Ernest Rubinstein

Themes: Aesthetics • Ancient & Classical • Literary Criticism

Entanglements of Two Duet As Form and Practice — Karen Christopher

Entanglements of Two Duet As Form and Practice

Karen Christopher

Themes: Aesthetics • Theater • Performing Arts

The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music

Friedrich Nietzsche

Themes: Aesthetics • Ancient & Classical • Literary Criticism

Beyond Words Movement Observation and Analysis — Carol-Lynne Moore

Beyond Words Movement Observation and Analysis

Carol-Lynne Moore

Themes: Aesthetics • Theater • Performing Arts

Frontiers of Pleasure Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought — Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

Frontiers of Pleasure Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

Themes: Aesthetics • Ancient & Classical • Literary Criticism

The Abyss Above Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche — Silke-Maria Weineck

The Abyss Above Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche

Silke-Maria Weineck

Themes: Aesthetics • Ancient & Classical • Literary Criticism

Euripides: Hecuba — Luigi Battezzato

Euripides: Hecuba

Luigi Battezzato

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Theatre Props and Civic Identity in Athens, 458-405 BC — Rosie Wyles

Theatre Props and Civic Identity in Athens, 458-405 BC

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

New Directions in Ancient Pantomime — Edith Hall

New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater — Graham Ley

A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’ The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India — Rakesh H. Solomon

Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’ The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India

Rakesh H. Solomon

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Funciones de género mito, historia y arquetipo en tres dramaturgas iberoamericanas : Lourdes Ortiz, Sabina Berman y Diana Raznovich — Nuria Ibáñez Quintana

Funciones de género mito, historia y arquetipo en tres dramaturgas iberoamericanas : Lourdes Ortiz, Sabina Berman y Diana Raznovich

Nuria Ibáñez Quintana

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Searching for Oedipus How I Found Meaning in an Ancient Masterpiece — Kenneth Glazer

Searching for Oedipus How I Found Meaning in an Ancient Masterpiece

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Brecht and Tragedy Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics — Martin Revermann

Brecht and Tragedy Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics

Martin Revermann

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

The Art of Euripides Dramatic Technique and Social Context — Donald J. Mastronarde

The Art of Euripides Dramatic Technique and Social Context

Donald J. Mastronarde

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

The Bad Boy of Athens Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones — Daniel Mendelsohn

The Bad Boy of Athens Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

Daniel Mendelsohn

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture — C. Fitzgerald

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah — Jean Racine

Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

Costume in Greek Tragedy — Rosie Wyles

Costume in Greek Tragedy

Themes: Theater • Ancient & Classical • Performing Arts

If Poetics by Aristotle is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Aesthetics, Theater, Ancient & Classical and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Karin Schlapbach, David Mamet, Tom Stern, P. Stewart, and others.

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