Author: Michael Ewans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350187593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity
Author: Michael Ewans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350187593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350187593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
Elements of general history, with a continuation by E. Nares
Author: Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama, 1700-1750
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Comedy (continued). Historical drama
Author: Denton Jaques Snider
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation)
Author: Astor Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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A Literary History of England Vol. 4
Author: A Baugh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136892990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136892990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Encyclopædia Americana
Author: Francis Lieber
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Subject-index
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Technique of Continuous Action in Roman Comedy
Author: Clinton C. Conrad
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Category : Latin drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
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Category : Latin drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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