Author: Katherine Lever
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000579271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
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.
The Art of Greek Comedy
Author: Katherine Lever
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000579271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000579271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
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.
Greek Comedy and Ideology
Author: David Konstan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195092945
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This study analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. Individual chapters treat Aristophanic and Menandrean comedies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195092945
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This study analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. Individual chapters treat Aristophanic and Menandrean comedies.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Author: Martin Revermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760283
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760283
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Greek Comedy
Author: Gilbert Norwood
Publisher: Routledge Library Editions: Comedy
ISBN: 9781032218076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1931, this book surveys the origin and development of Greek Comic Drama, with full discussion not only of Aristophanes and Menander but also of other important playwrights whose work had usually received scant notice because only fragments of it have survived.
Publisher: Routledge Library Editions: Comedy
ISBN: 9781032218076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1931, this book surveys the origin and development of Greek Comic Drama, with full discussion not only of Aristophanes and Menander but also of other important playwrights whose work had usually received scant notice because only fragments of it have survived.
Performing Greek Comedy
Author: Alan Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009308
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A new account of Greek comedy performance from its sixth-century origins to New Comedy, drawing upon fresh visual evidence.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009308
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A new account of Greek comedy performance from its sixth-century origins to New Comedy, drawing upon fresh visual evidence.
The Language of Greek Comedy
Author: Andreas Willi
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199245479
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterizationin Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay.While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199245479
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterizationin Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay.While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
The Verse of Greek Comedy
Author: John Williams White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama
Author: Ben Akrigg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107008557
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107008557
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.
New Comedy
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Methuen Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.
Publisher: Methuen Drama
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Author: Emmanuela Bakola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107355508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107355508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.