Author: Mario Telò
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022630972X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.
Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy
The Comedies of Aristophanes ...
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Classical Comedy
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959487
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959487
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
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.
Complete Plays of Aristophanes
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553902598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553902598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.
Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes
Author: Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107083796
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107083796
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.
Aristophanes. The Eleven Comedies
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Aristophanes, 3
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216981
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Directness, vivid imagery, and rhetorical music prevail."--
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216981
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Directness, vivid imagery, and rhetorical music prevail."--
The Plays of Aristophanes
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513217607
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The Plays of Aristophanes (425 BC-388 BC) is a collection of comedies by Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Noted for his exploration of fantasy, sexuality, and contemporary politics, Aristophanes was a leading figure in Old Attic Comedy whose award-winning plays continue to delight and inspire nearly 2,500 years after they were first performed. This collection includes some of his best-known work, showcasing his talent as an unmatched humorist and shrewd social commentator whose words drew ire from Athenian general Cleon, Socrates, and Plato. In The Clouds, an indebted Athenian aristocrat enters a philosophical school despite his advanced age in order to sharpen his argumentative skills. There, he learns the recent teachings of Socrates and gets a chance to meet the legendary figure himself. Despite his earnest desire for enlightenment, Strepsiades proves shockingly inept and is forced to beg his young son for help. The Birds follows a pair of middle-aged men on a walk through the wilderness, where they encounter a former king who has been transformed into a bird. When a group of enraged birds holds them captive, suspecting the men of ill-intent, the two devise a plan to inspire the birds to challenge the Olympians and assert their power in the universal order. In Lystistrata, the title heroine leads a courageous campaign to put an end to the brutal Peloponnesian War. Her bold plan involves encouraging women throughout the warring city states of Greece to withhold sex from men until the violence is stopped. The Plays of Aristophanes is an invaluable collection of comedies from a leading playwright of Ancient Greece, a man whose work has survived for centuries while inspiring countless writers, readers, and audiences around the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aristophanes’ The Plays of Aristophanes is a classic of Ancient Greek literature reimagined for modern readers.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513217607
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The Plays of Aristophanes (425 BC-388 BC) is a collection of comedies by Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Noted for his exploration of fantasy, sexuality, and contemporary politics, Aristophanes was a leading figure in Old Attic Comedy whose award-winning plays continue to delight and inspire nearly 2,500 years after they were first performed. This collection includes some of his best-known work, showcasing his talent as an unmatched humorist and shrewd social commentator whose words drew ire from Athenian general Cleon, Socrates, and Plato. In The Clouds, an indebted Athenian aristocrat enters a philosophical school despite his advanced age in order to sharpen his argumentative skills. There, he learns the recent teachings of Socrates and gets a chance to meet the legendary figure himself. Despite his earnest desire for enlightenment, Strepsiades proves shockingly inept and is forced to beg his young son for help. The Birds follows a pair of middle-aged men on a walk through the wilderness, where they encounter a former king who has been transformed into a bird. When a group of enraged birds holds them captive, suspecting the men of ill-intent, the two devise a plan to inspire the birds to challenge the Olympians and assert their power in the universal order. In Lystistrata, the title heroine leads a courageous campaign to put an end to the brutal Peloponnesian War. Her bold plan involves encouraging women throughout the warring city states of Greece to withhold sex from men until the violence is stopped. The Plays of Aristophanes is an invaluable collection of comedies from a leading playwright of Ancient Greece, a man whose work has survived for centuries while inspiring countless writers, readers, and audiences around the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aristophanes’ The Plays of Aristophanes is a classic of Ancient Greek literature reimagined for modern readers.
Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy
Author: M. S. Silk
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199253821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199253821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.
Three Comedies
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472061532
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472061532
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.