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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.
Classical Comedy
Author | : Tom Rothfield |
Publsiher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0761813659 |
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Classical Comedy- An Armoury of Laughter, Democracy's Bastion of Defence repudiates Aristotle's claim in Poetics, that tragedy was the jewel of fifth century democracy, arguing that the claim belongs to comedy, as a brilliantly entertaining defense of social values and standards. Tom Rothfield examines every aspect of classicism, analyzing comedy's origins, and structure, to demonstrate the reasons for classical comedy's universal and continued significance. He breaks down theatrical mechanisms, including the playhouse, masks, costumes, a comedian's comic skills, the playwright's inventive genius in plot development, character development, and effective jokes. Through his analysis, Rothfield demonstrates the classical framework, and classical comic criteria that provides an unrivalled model for contemporary theater.
Classical Hollywood Comedy
Author | : Kristine Brunovska Karnick,Henry Jenkins |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781135213237 |
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Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy
Author | : Leo Salingar |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521291135 |
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For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.
Classical Comedy Greek and Roman
Author | : Robert W. Corrigan |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2000-04-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781476841915 |
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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.
In Praise of Comedy
Author | : James Feibleman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2022-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000579239 |
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First published in 1939, the original blurb reads: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do about comedy. What is comedy itself? In this work the history of comic instances is combed in the search for the truth about comedy. Today, when laughter is stifled in so many countries, an exposition of comedy shows it to have a universal and necessary character. Comedy, as its natures reveals, is one criterion of the state of human culture; it is highly contemporary and requires freedom – but freedom for adventure, not for routine. After a chapter devoted to the explanation of a logical theory of comedy, the modern comedians are examined, and the humour of every one, from the Marx Brothers to surrealism, from Gertrude Stein to Mickey Mouse, from James Joyce to Charlie Chaplin, is shown to be a constant, inherent in the same set of unchanging conditions.
The Comedy of Errors
Author | : Robert S. Miola |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0815319975 |
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This comprehensive guide to The Comedy of Errors brings together the most significant and authoritative insights on this early Shakepearean comedy. The texts, presented chronologically, represent the best writings on the play - from a 1594 review of a performance at Gray's Inn to contemporary feminist and new historicist interpretations. Important textual analyses by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Bernard Shaw, and Harry Levin, among others, are included with five previously unpublished essays by leading Shakespeare experts.
Classical Literature
Author | : Neil Croally,Roy Hyde |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2011-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136736629 |
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Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as poetic metres, patronage and symposia. The literature is put in historical context, and the material is organized chronologically, but also by genre or author, as appropriate; each section or chapter has suggestions for further reading. The book ranges from Homer to the writers of the later Roman Empire, and includes a glossary, a chronology of literary and political events, and useful maps showing the origins of ancient writers. The collection will be essential for students and others who want a structured and informative introduction to the literature of the classical world.