Aristophanes' Comedy of Names

Aristophanes' Comedy of Names
Title Aristophanes' Comedy of Names PDF eBook
Author Nikoletta Kanavou
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 243
Release 2011
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110247062

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Aristophanes, 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.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
Title Lysistrata PDF eBook
Author Aristophanes
Publisher
Pages 64
Release 1916
Genre Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
ISBN

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Aristophanes the Democrat

Aristophanes the Democrat
Title Aristophanes the Democrat PDF eBook
Author Keith Sidwell
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 424
Release 2009-10-22
Genre Drama
ISBN 0521519985

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This book argues that writers of Old Comedy belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies.

Classical Comedy

Classical Comedy
Title Classical Comedy PDF eBook
Author Aristophanes
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 383
Release 2006-09-28
Genre Drama
ISBN 0141959487

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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.

The Rivals of Aristophanes

The Rivals of Aristophanes
Title The Rivals of Aristophanes PDF eBook
Author David Harvey
Publisher Classical Press of Wales
Pages 575
Release 2002-12-31
Genre History
ISBN 1910589594

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The work of the 'other' comic poets of classical Athens, those who competed with, and in some cases defeated, their (eventually) better-known fellow comedian, Aristophanes, has almost eluded the historical record. The poetry of Cratinus, Phrynichos, Eupolis and the rest has survived only in tantalising, often tiny, fragments and citations. Modern studies in this field have themselves often been difficult of access. Here an exceptional cast of scholars, including most of the leading international authorities, provides a set of 28 interpretative essays to cover every one of these 'other' poets of Athenian Old Comedy for whom significant evidence survives. The work includes a comprehensive bibliography, and is a landmark in the study of Old Comedy.

Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy

Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy
Title Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy PDF eBook
Author Mario Telò
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 252
Release 2016-04-18
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 022630972X

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The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Title The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy PDF eBook
Author Martin Revermann
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 523
Release 2014-06-12
Genre Drama
ISBN 0521760283

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This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.