Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes
Title | Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes PDF eBook |
Author | Gwendolyn Compton-Engle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2015-04-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107083796 |
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.
Costume in Aristophanic Poetry
Title | Costume in Aristophanic Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Laura M. Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | History |
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Costume in Aristophanic Comedy
Title | Costume in Aristophanic Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Marjorie Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1182 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Costume of the Actors in Aristophanic Comedy
Title | The Costume of the Actors in Aristophanic Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Costume |
ISBN |
Costume in Aristophanic Poetry
Title | Costume in Aristophanic Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Laura M. Stone |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780405140259 |
Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise
Title | Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise PDF eBook |
Author | Dimitrios Kanellakis |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2020-01-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110677032 |
The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as an elaborate system which characterises the style of the specific dramatist. More precisely, the book analyses Aristophanes’ most prominent verbal, thematic, and theatrical modes of surprise from a typological perspective, and interprets them as comprising the key area in which the playwright claims and demonstrates his artistic superiority over rival genres and individual poets. In line with this purpose, two parallel aims of the book are to provide an original commentary on the passages under examination, and to promote the study of modern performances – a practice which has so far been either restricted to Classical Reception or only theoretically acknowledged (if at all) by mainstream philological scholarship. This is a timely book on a topic of wide current interest across a range of interlocking disciplines: emotion studies, semiotics, narratology, information theory, and -most pertinently for this book- humour research.
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
Title | Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Akrigg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-01-31 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107008557 |
Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.