Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy
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Author | : Mario Telò |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-04-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 022630969X |
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Aristophanes and the Generation of Greek Comedy challenges the ways in which both ancient and modern scholarship have created the figure we know as Aristophanes and it builds on Telo's the long-term project to study the genres of ancient Greek literature (particularly plays) as well as genre theory more generally.Telo asks, how did the image we know of Aristophanes arose? Aristophanes' supremacy is traced, by Telo, back to the playwright himself. Early scholars presented Aristophanes' work as a prestigious object, an expression of supposedly transhistorical values of dignity (semnotes) and self-control (sophrosune). This construction of the merits of Aristophanic comedy over that of other varieties depends on its textual connections with other works, particularly tragedies. Telo shows, through close readings of Wasps and Clouds, for example, how the Aristophanic style is actually figured in the plays as the tactile experience of a garment, a soft, protective cloak intended to shield an audience from the debilitating effects of competitors' comedies during the Dionysia. Aristophanes' narratives of sons and fathers, poet and audience, is thus at the center of the discourse that has shaped his canonical dominance ever since.
Author | : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2015-04-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107083796 |
Download Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This 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 | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Bantam Classics |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2006-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553902598 |
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A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2006-09-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141959487 |
Download Classical Comedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From 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.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 1984-11-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0452007178 |
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Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist—and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing—at once bawdy and delicate—brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. His messages are as timely and relevant today as they were in ancient Greece, and his plays still provoke laughter—and thought. This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds, translated by three of the most distinguished translators and classicists of our time.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : M. S. Silk |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199253821 |
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All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 713 |
Release | : 2013-02-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1625582692 |
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Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780472061525 |
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A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.