Can the Aesthetic Experience be compared?

Abstract

Aesthetics is considered as the study of the beauty. Though Aesthetics as a study discipline started in eighteenth century, it could be noticed even before that in various art fprms.. There are diverse theories of aesthetics. It was much dealt in the art forms like drawing, paintings, sculpture, architecture etc. But it was less explored in the field of drama which is generally considered as an important form of art. This paper is an attempt to connect the theory of aesthetic experience with drama. Both Aristotle’s Poetics and Bharata’s Natyasastra deal with the theories of drama and other forms of literature. This paper tries to compare the dramatic theories of Aristotle Poetics and Bharata’s Natyasastra through the lenses of Aesthetics Experience.  This paper is divided into four sections: first section deals with an introduction of aesthetics and how it can be dealt in the field of drama; the second tries to explore the aesthetic experience in dramatic theory of Aristotle Poetics; the third tries to find the aesthetic experience in the dramatics theory of Bharata’s Natyasastra; the fourth section compares both the theories with respect to the aesthetic experience.