Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 0195092945
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.
Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,2 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.
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521760283
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author : Page duBois
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226815757
Considers how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering how it has been overlooked as a political medium by modern theorists and critics. Moving beyond the popular readings of ancient Greece through the lens of tragedy, she calls for a revitalized look at Greek comedy. Rather than revisiting the sufferings of Oedipus and his family or tragedy’s relationship to questions of sovereignty, this book calls for comedy—its laughter, its free speech, its wild swarming animal choruses, and its rebellious women—to inform another model of democracy. Ancient comedy has been underplayed in the study of Greek drama. Yet, with the irrepressible energy of the comic swarm, it provides a unique perspective on everyday life, gender and sexuality, and the utopian politics of the classical period of Athenian democracy. Using the concepts of swarm intelligence and nomadic theory, duBois augments tragic thought with the resistant, utopian, libidinous, and often joyous communal legacy of comedy, and she connects the lively anti-authoritarianism of the ancient comic chorus with the social justice movements of today.
Author : Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0521860660
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Author : Almut Fries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110646269
This volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors treat questions of origin, genre and artistic expression, interpret individual plays from different angles (literary, historical, performative) and cover aspects of reception from antiquity to the 20th century. Topics that have not received much attention so far, such as the prehistory of Doric comedy or music in Old Comedy, receive a prominent place. The essays are arranged in three sections: (1) Genre, (2) Texts and Contexts, (3) Reception. Within each section the chapters are as far as possible arranged in chronological order, according to historical time or to the (putative) dates of the plays under discussion. Thus readers will be able to construe their own diachronic and thematic connections, for example between the portrayal of stock characters in early Doric farce and developed Attic New Comedy or between different forms of comic reception in the fourth century BC. The book is intended for professional scholars, graduate and undergraduate students. Its wide range of subjects and approaches will appeal not only to those working on Greek comedy, but to anyone interested in Greek drama and its afterlife.
Author : Stephen E. Kidd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107050154
This book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.
Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Latin drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 9780801493980
This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." David Konstan looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra. Offering new interpretations of each, he develops a "typology of plot forms" by analyzing structural features and patterns of conventional behavior in the plays, and he relates the results of his literary analysis to contemporary social conditions. He argues that the plays address tensions that were potentially disruptive to the ancient city-state, and that they tended to resolve these tensions in ways that affirmed traditional values. Roman Comedy is an innovative and challenging book that will be welcomed by students of classical literature, ancient social history, the history of the theater, and comedy as a genre.
Author : Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
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Author : Ben Akrigg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107008557
Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.
