The Comedies of Plutus
Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 1822
Category : Athens (Greece)
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 1822
Category : Athens (Greece)
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1907
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 1825
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1867
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625582706
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.
Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Athens (Greece)
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Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 161451125X
This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.
Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1995-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195357698
In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. It explores the utopian vision of Aristophanes' comedies--for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of wealth himself--as interventions in the political issues of his time. David Konstan goes on to examine the more private world of Menandrean comedy (including two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), in which problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. In conclusion, Konstan looks at an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliére, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.