/lit/ - Literature

If one would like to write Shakespeare-style tragedies today, contemporary Shakespeare-style (or Elizabethan-style) tragedies, what plots one could steal?

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Anyone with some familiarity with Shakespeare knows he often took plots from other sources and modeled them to his own purposes. Well, so let us suppose that one would like to to the same thing today, what:

Movies, books, comics, cartoons, Korean-cinema, Bollywood-cinema, etc.

Are good material for tragedy-adaptation?

I am not talking of modern-day re-telling’s of the Shakespeare’s tragedies. I am talking of brand new material that could be reworked with a more poetic and intense language and set on stage

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What do you guys consider to be the best theory of aesthetics?

I would really like that someone one day could discover some kind of unchangeable and almost mathematically verifiable idea of how to evaluate art. It would be nice if phrases like “everyone has its own taste” and “beauty is relative” were simply demolished, and some form of precise and immutable way of analyzing art and beauty could be created. If such a thing could be achieved there would not be any room for charlatans and mediocrities, and only people with real talent and training would be respected as significant artists. The great purge that the world would witness would be really a wonder to contemplate: “artists” and “writers” and “musicians” all around the globe would be forced to face their own mediocrity, and nobody would be able to present any excuse to validate their taste. If somebody could discover a 2 + 2 = 4 critical evaluation of art that would be one of the greatest achievements of the civilization.

Yet I know this is impossible. This is just a dream: we are doomed to subjectivism for all eternity. Aesthetics have been studied now for almost 3.000 years and still there is not a scientific and unquestionable measurement that we can apply to art. But, among the aesthetic theories that have been worked this far, what is your favorite?