There are four kinds of tragedy—the same number as that
of the component parts mentioned. There is the complex kind, constituted by reversal and discovery (for example, 1456a plays about Ajax or Ixion); there is the morality tragedy (for example, Women of Phthia and Peleus); finally there is […] (e.g. Daughters of Phorcys, Prometheus, and plays set in the underworld).* Preferably one should try to have all four, but if not all then the most important and as many as possible, especially given the way people criticize poets these days. Because in the past there have been good poets in each genre, people expect a present-day poet to surpass each of them in his own particular excellence. 5 If we are to compare and contrast tragedies, we must do so principally in respect of the story, that is, whether they share the same complication and explication. Many poets complicate well but explicate badly, but the two need to be matched to each other.
Greek Tragedy: Selected Works of Aeschylus and Sophocles: Prometheus Bound, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Choephoroe, The Eumenides, Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, Electra