《Amphitheater》 - Amphitheater

Japanese: 《アンフィトルオ》 - あんふぃとるお
《Amphitheater》 - Amphitheater

...It refers to a work that does not fit the traditional definition of tragedy or comedy because it contains a mixture of tragic and comic elements. The first person to use this term was the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, who wrote in lines 50 to 63 of his work Amphitheatre that a mixture of crude comedy and sublime tragedy is created because gods and kings, who have traditionally been the protagonists of tragedy since ancient Greek drama, and slaves, who have traditionally been the protagonists of comic plays, appear together. In this case, the starting point is the definition that distinguishes tragedy and comedy based on the status of the protagonist, but Renaissance scholars such as J.J. Scaliger defined tragedy as a tragedy that ends happily.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Amphitheatre" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…悲劇的要素と喜劇的要素が入り混じってあらわれるために,伝統的な悲劇,喜劇の定義にはあてはまらない作品をいう。最初にこのいい方を使ったのは,古代ローマの劇作家プラウトゥスで,自作の《アンフィトルオ》の第50行から63行にかけて,古代ギリシア演劇以来伝統的に悲劇の主人公に定められている神々や王侯と,喜劇の主人公に定められた奴隷とがともにあらわれるため,粗野な喜劇と崇高な悲劇との混淆型が生まれると述べている。この場合は悲劇と喜劇とを主人公の身分で分ける定義から出発しているが,ルネサンス期の学者J.J.スカリゲルらは,幸福な結末に終わる悲劇を悲喜劇と定義した。…

※「《アンフィトルオ》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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