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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.
Author: Ian C. Storey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 0674996631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe era of Old Comedy (ca. 485–ca. 380 BC), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes. But the work of many other poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis, the other members, with Aristophanes, of the canonical Old Comic Triad, survives in fragments.
Author: Bernard Freydberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0253351065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals comedy's contributions to the philosophical enterprise
Author: Zachary P. Biles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-27
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1139494724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAthenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature.
Author: Aristophanes
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nikoletta Kanavou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 3110247062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristophanes, the celebrated Greek comic poet, is famous for his plays on contemporary themes, in which he exercises fierce political satire. Ancient political comedy made ample use of comically significant proper names - much as is the case in modern satire. Comic names used by Aristophanes for his satirical targets (public figures, everyday Athenians) provide the main subject of this book, which addresses questions such as why particular names are chosen (or invented), and how they relate to the plays' characters and themes.
Author: James Robson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1472519620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis accessible introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest comic writers tackles key questions posed by Aristophanes' plays, such as staging, humour, songs, obscene language, politics and the modern translation and performance of Aristophanic comedy. The book opens up exciting and contentious areas of Aristophanic scholarship in a way that is engaging and readily comprehensible to a non-specialist audience, never losing sight of the fact that Aristophanes' plays are vibrant literary texts, designed primarily to appeal to a classical Athenian audience as pieces of living drama. Key to the book's appeal is that James Robson conceives of the plays as dynamic texts, containing a treasure trove of information not only about how they might have been performed and received in classical Athens, but also how they might be read and understood today. Most importantly, readers are given the tools and information to make their own minds up about the debates that still rage about Aristophanic comedy in the modern world.
Author: Almut Fries
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 3110646269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors treat questions of origin, genre and artistic expression, interpret individual plays from different angles (literary, historical, performative) and cover aspects of reception from antiquity to the 20th century. Topics that have not received much attention so far, such as the prehistory of Doric comedy or music in Old Comedy, receive a prominent place. The essays are arranged in three sections: (1) Genre, (2) Texts and Contexts, (3) Reception. Within each section the chapters are as far as possible arranged in chronological order, according to historical time or to the (putative) dates of the plays under discussion. Thus readers will be able to construe their own diachronic and thematic connections, for example between the portrayal of stock characters in early Doric farce and developed Attic New Comedy or between different forms of comic reception in the fourth century BC. The book is intended for professional scholars, graduate and undergraduate students. Its wide range of subjects and approaches will appeal not only to those working on Greek comedy, but to anyone interested in Greek drama and its afterlife.
Author: John E. Thorburn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 0816074984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-09-28
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0141959487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.
