Orphaned Jane journeys from a harsh childhood to become the loving caregiver of a child at the mysterious manor of Mr. Rochester. Jane is drawn to her enigmatic employer, but as dark secrets emerge, she must choose between her newfound security and the uncertainty of a life lived for oneself.
Includes an interview with author and scholar Maureen Lee Lenker of the USC Libraries.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
EMILY BERGL as Jane
JANE CARR as Mrs. Reed/Lady Ingram
ALEXIS JACKNOW as Grace/Amy/Diana
CERRIS MORGAN-Moyer as Bertha/Adele/Blanche/Hannah
DARREN RICHARDSON as St. John/Mason
ALAN SHEARMAN as Brocklehurst/Dr. Carter/ Rev. Wood/Porter
JEANNE SYQUIA as Helen/Mary
NICK TOREN as Rochester
JOANNE WHALLEY as Mrs. Fairfax
Directed by Marsha Mason and recorded before a live audience.
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς; Latin: De Poetica) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls «poetry» (a term that derives from a classical Greek term, ποιητής, that means «poet; author; maker» and in this context includes verse drama – comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play – as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. Difference of goodness in the characters.
Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its «first principles», Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, «almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions». The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes.
Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics and Rhetoric. The Poetics is specifically concerned with drama. At some point, Aristotle's original work was divided in two, each «book» written on a separate roll of papyrus.