Aristophanes And The Cloak Of Comedy
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Aristophanes the Cloak of Comedy
Author | : Mario Telò |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-04-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780226309729 |
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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 Comedies of Aristophanes
Author | : Aristophanes,Thomas Mitchell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HXIJYC |
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Classical Comedy
Author | : Aristophanes,Menander,Plautus,Terence |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2006-09-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780141959481 |
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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.
Complete Plays of Aristophanes
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publsiher | : Bantam Classics |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2006-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780553902594 |
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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.
Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes
Author | : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2015-04-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107083790 |
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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.
Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy
Author | : M. S. Silk |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019925382X |
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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.
Aristophanes Wasps
Author | : Kenneth Rothwell |
Publsiher | : Oxford Greek and Latin College |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780190907402 |
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Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that readers of any time and place can appreciate. A father and son argue about politics, household servants try to please their master, a disruptive gang of the father's friends decide to intervene, a dog becomes a lightning-rod for his antics in the kitchen, attempts are made at reform and reconciliation, and it all ends with a drinking party that goes disastrously wrong. The father, Philocleon, and his friends, the chorus of wasp-like old men for whom the play is named, are some of the great creations of comic drama. The characters of the Wasps make constant references to the everyday world they are living in: its political demagogues, court system, religious rituals, social niceties, class distinctions, diseases, clothes, food, toilets, paychecks, geography, weather, household items, literary and mythological allusions, military experiences, and much more. These references give the play its immediacy, but their unfamiliarity to modern students can pose a challenge. This edition provides a full introduction devoted to the political, social, and literary background of the play, as well as notes to the text explaining historical details.
The Eleven Comedies Complete
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2013-02-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781625582690 |
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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.