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Author : Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies in Later Greek Comedy written by Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Forman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780893566593
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Classical Greek and Roman Drama written by Robert J. Forman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential companion for the student of literature. Works selected include the best-known works of the classical Greek and Roman theatre.
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760283
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author : Katherine Lever
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579301
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Art of Greek Comedy written by Katherine Lever and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life. Aristophanes and Menander are deservedly the most famous writers of Greek comedy. The extant comedies of Aristophanes are notable for wit, comical action, beautiful poetry, and the dramatization of such problems as health of mind and body, sex, money, government, law, religion, education, and drama, music and poetry. Menander portrays with delicate and sympathetic understanding a world in which the seeming evils of loss and discord eventually lead to the genuine goods of discovery and concord. The art of Aristophanes is critically examined in three chapters and that of Menander in one. For centuries Dionysos had been worshipped in a spirit of ecstasy which manifested itself in song, dance and the wearing of masks and costumes, pantomime, farce, and satire. The processes by which these diverse elements were developed and fused into the complex literary form of Old Comedy are the subject of the first three chapters. Aristophanes was not only pre-eminent as a writer of Old Comedy; he also participated in the transformation of Old Comedy into Middle Comedy, a curious and interesting dramatic form which is fully treated in the seventh chapter. In the last chapter the emergence of New Comedy is traced and the art of Menander criticized. The book ends with a brief indication of the various forms in which the spirit of Greek comedy had survived to the present day.
Author : Michael Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199743541
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy written by Michael Fontaine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.
Author : Ben Akrigg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619411
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama written by Ben Akrigg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of masters and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a beating by his master at one moment but laugh with him when they bantered familiarly at the next, what does this tell us about ancient Greek slavery? This volume presents ten essays by leading specialists in ancient Greek literature, culture and history, exploring the changing roles and representations of slaves in comic drama from Aristophanes at the height of the Athenian Empire to the New Comedy of Menander and the Hellenistic World. The contributors focus variously on individual comic dramas or on particular historical periods, analysing a wide range of textual, material-culture and comparative data for the practices of slavery and their representation on the ancient Greek comic stage.
Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191588652
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings written by Oliver Taplin and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-01-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens up a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy; and it gives stage-centre to a particularly attractive and entertaining series of vase-paintings, which have been generally regarded as marginal curiosities. These are the so-called `phlyax vases', nearly all painted in the Greek cities of South Italy in the period 400 t0 360 BC. Up till now, they have been taken to reflect some kind of local folk-theatre, but Oliver Taplin, prompted especially by three that have only been published in the last twelve years, argues that most, if not all, reflect Athenian comedy of the sort represented by Aristophanes. This bold thesis opens up questions of the relation of tragedy as well as comedy to vase-painting, the cultural climate of the Greek cities in Italy, and the extent to which Athenians were aware of drama as a potential `export'. It also enriches appreciation of many key aspects of Aristophanic comedy: its metatheatre and self-reference, its use of stage-action and stage-props, its unabashed indecency, and its polarised relationship, even rivalry, with tragedy. The book has assembled thirty-six photographs of vase-paintings. Many are printed here for the first time outside specialist publications that are not readily accessible.
Author : Ariana Traill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139472623
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Women and the Comic Plot in Menander written by Ariana Traill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh look at mistaken identity in the work of an author who helped to introduce the device to comedy, in this book Professor Traill shows how the outrageous mistakes many male characters in Menander make about women are grounded in their own emotional needs. The core of the argument derives from analysis of speeches by or about women, with particular attention to the language used to articulate problems of knowledge and perception, responsibility and judgement. Not only does Menander freely borrow language, situations, and themes from tragedy, but he also engages with some of tragedy's epistemological questions, particularly the question of how people interpret what they see and hear. Menander was instrumental in turning the tragic theme of human ignorance into a comic device and inventing a plot type with enormous impact on the western tradition. This book provides original insights into his achievements within their historical and intellectual context.
Author : Shawn O'Bryhim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778821
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Comedy written by Shawn O'Bryhim and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights—the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent theme in the play, and a bibliography of selected readings about the play and playwright. This range of material, rare in a single volume, provides several reading and teaching options, from the study of a single author to an overview of the entire Classical comedic tradition. The plays have been translated for readability and fidelity to the original text by established Classics scholars. Douglas Olson provides the translation and commentary for Aristophanes' Acharnians, Shawn O'Bryhim for Menander's Dyskolos, George Fredric Franco for Plautus' Casina, and Timothy J. Moore for Terence's Phormio.
Author : Alexa Piqueux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192660330
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE written by Alexa Piqueux and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various connections between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily (the so-called 'phlyax vases'). After introducing comic texts and comedy-related vase-paintings in the regional contexts, The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE considers the generic features of the comic body, characterized as it is by a specific ugliness and a constant motion. It also explores how costumes —masks, padding, phallus, clothing, accessories— and gestures contribute to the characters' visual identity in relation with speech : it analyzes the cultural, social, aesthetic, and theatrical conventions by which spectators decipher the body. This study thus leads to a re-examination of the modalities of comic mimesis, in particular when addressing sexual codes in cross-dressing scenes which reveal the artifice of the fictional body. It also sheds light on how comic poets make use of the scenic or imaginary representations of the bodies of those who are targets of political, social, or intellectual satire. There is a particular emphasis on body movements, where the book not only deals with body language and the dramatic function of comic gesture, but also with how words confer a kind of poetic and unreal motion to the body.
Author : Gregory Dobrov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004188843
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy written by Gregory Dobrov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy sets forth the main resources for the advancing student in three sections: "Contexts,""History," and "Elements.” The volume is a guide for understanding and interpreting the classic comedies as well as for navigating the principal corpora of texts, fragments and scholia.
Author : John E. Thorburn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816074984
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama written by John E. Thorburn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589594
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Rivals of Aristophanes written by David Harvey and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Pamela Loos
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114966
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Greek Drama written by Pamela Loos and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the development of comedy and tragedy in early Greek Drama, with essays that explore the works of many of the original dramatists, including Aristophanes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides.
Author : Robert W. Corrigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1476841918
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman written by Robert W. Corrigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight ä varied stimulating broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century. ä Leonard C. Pronko author ÊTheatre East and WestÊ Chair Dept. of Theatre Pomona College. Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor translated by Palmer Bovie.
Author : Carl Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199950954
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Satyric Play written by Carl Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyric Play is the first book to offer an integrated analysis of Greek comedy and satyr drama. Using a literary-historical approach, Carl A. Shaw argues that comedy and satyr plays influenced each other in nearly all stages of their development. Although satyr drama was written by tragedians and employed a number of formal tragic elements, the humorous chorus of half-man, half-horse satyrs encouraged sustained interaction between poets of comedy and satyr play. From sixth-century proto-drama, through classical productions staged at the Athenian City Dionysia, to bookish Alexandrian plays of the third-century, the remains of comic and satyric performances reveal a range of literary, aesthetic, historical, religious, and geographical connections. Shaw analyzes the details of this interplay diachronically, looking at a wide range of literary and material evidence. He shows that ancient critics and poets allude to comic-satyric associations in surprising ways, vases depict fascinating performative connections, and the plays themselves share titles, plots, modes of humor, and occasionally even a chorus of satyrs. Satyric Play uncovers and examines the complex, shifting relationship between comedy and satyr drama, offering insight into the development of these genres and the Greek theatrical experience as a whole.
Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350187593
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity written by Michael Ewans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century BCE. It explores the range of comedies during this period, which were fictional dramas that engaged with the political and social concerns of ancient society, and also at times with mythology and tragedy. The volume centres largely around the surviving work of Aristophanes and Menander in Athens, and Plautus and Terence in Rome, but authors whose plays survive only in fragments are also discussed. Performances and plays drew on a range of forms, including satire and fantasy, and were designed to entertain and amuse their audiences while also asking them to question issues of morality, privilege and class. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to ancient comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
