A comédia na poética de Aristóteles

Abstract

This paper tries to reconstruct what might have been Aristotle’s theory of comedy. Through the analysis of the actual text of the Poetics, along with some other texts of Aristotle, I draw conclusions regarding the nature of comedy and laughter in Aristotle’s thinking, and reflect upon subjects there implied, such as what would be the role played by katharsis in comedy and the emotions proper to comedy.