A COMPARISON OF HELLENIC AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS IN DRAMA

It is. proper to remain awestruck and incredulous at what Schubert has accomplished
in his Ninth Symphony; and it is wrong to ask for a prototype or analogy. In a sense we can "explain" the work: we can analyze it into its parts and put. it together again; thus, the work becomes better understood, that is, it comes to give the feeling that it is capable of giving. But the fact that it should in the end. affect us as it does cannot' be explained.

Thus Arnold Isenb.erg wrestles with the complexity
and frustration of intellectual and verbal'analysis of aesthetics, specifically in music. The limits of metaphorical language must also be stressed, at the outset, when other dimensions of art are investigated and scrutinized.

In the study which follows, I shall not only
affirm the profound difficulty of conceptual evaluation of the aesthetics involved in one particular field of th.e performing arts, that of drama, but also demonstrate
certain differences which separate the ancient Greek concept of aesthetics from some progressive contemporary thought on this subject.

By so doing I shall help us to discover the usefulness ...