Aristophanes and the Comic Hero
Author: Cedric Hubbell Whitman
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Author: Martin Revermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 0521760283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
A Study of the Comic Hero in Three Plays by Aristophanes, Three by Molière and Three by George S. Kaufman
Author: James J. Etue
Publisher:
Published: 1951
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Idea of Comedy
Author: Jan Hokenson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780838640968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Disengaging unstated premises to show how the theoretical discourse about comedy often enacts the intellectual disputes of its time, The idea of comedy tracks the history of comic theories along two principal axes. The first is historical, showing how the Hellenistic ethical conception devolves into social superiority and then into populist assertions, enidng on the question of whether contemporary comic theory is still populist today." "The second axis is conceptual, sorting theories by types of agreement and dispute. Whether comedy improves the citizens or threatens political instability, whether it insults or enacts moral standards, whether it serves God and the integrated superego or the devil and the anarchic id, are some of the questions addressed by theroists such as Cicero, Maggi, Dryden, Kant, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, and Genette." -book jacket.
The Comic Hero
Author: Robert Mitchell Torrance
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristophanes and His Tragic Muse
Author: Stephanie Nelson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9004310916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the two. And yet the genres developed together, were performed together, and influenced each other to the extent of becoming polar opposites. In Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse, Stephanie Nelson considers this opposition through an analysis of how the genres developed, by looking at the tragic and comic elements in satyr drama, and by contrasting specific Aristophanes plays with tragedies on similar themes, such as the individual, the polis, and the gods. The study reveals that tragedy’s focus on necessity and a quest for meaning complements a neglected but critical element in Athenian comedy: its interest in freedom, and the ambivalence of its incompatible visions of reality.
Comic Terminations in Aristophanes and the Comic Fragments
Author: Charles William Peppler
Publisher:
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781019530696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaugh out loud with this fascinating exploration of Aristophanic comedy. Charles William Peppler delves into the linguistic and cultural background of comedic devices used by the ancient playwright, with a focus on diminutives, character names, and patronymics. Drawing on a wealth of literary and historical sources, this book is an entertaining and illuminating study of one of the funniest writers of all time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Comic Terminations in Aristophanes and the Comic Fragments, Part
Author: Charles William Peppler
Publisher:
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781436810326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Death of Comedy
Author: Erich Segal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780674043411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd.
Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes
Author: Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-27
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1107083796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.
