Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy
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Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy
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Author : Mario Telò
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-04-18
Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy written by Mario Telò and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-18 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
The Comedies Of Aristophanes
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1822
The Comedies Of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1822 with Athens (Greece) categories.
Classical Comedy
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-09-28
Classical Comedy written by Aristophanes and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-28 with Drama categories.
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
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Release Date : 2006-05-30
Complete Plays Of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and has been published by Bantam Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with Fiction categories.
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.
Birds And Other Plays
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
Birds And Other Plays written by Aristophanes and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire,sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens occupythe Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city. The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is Aristophanes' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, thegod of wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified. This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an illuminating introduction including play by play analysis anddetailed notes.
Aristophanes The Eleven Comedies
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Aristophanes The Eleven Comedies written by Aristophanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Athens (Greece) categories.
Three Comedies
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1969
Three Comedies written by Aristophanes and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Drama categories.
A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.
The Eleven Comedies Complete
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-04
The Eleven Comedies Complete written by Aristophanes and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-04 with Fiction categories.
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.
Aristophanes And The Definition Of Comedy
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Author : M. S. Silk
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Aristophanes And The Definition Of Comedy written by M. S. Silk and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.
New Comedy
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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Release Date : 1994-03-14
New Comedy written by Aristophanes and has been published by Methuen Drama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-03-14 with Drama categories.
Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.