Political Comedy in Aristophanes
Author | : Malcolm Heath |
Publisher | : Vandehoeck & Rupprecht |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Malcolm Heath |
Publisher | : Vandehoeck & Rupprecht |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Keith Sidwell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2009-10-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521519985 |
This book argues that writers of Old Comedy belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies.
Author | : Michael Vickers |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0292746571 |
Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades. According to Vickers, the plays of Aristophanes—far from being nonpolitical—actually allow us to gauge the reaction of the Athenian public to the events that followed Pericles' death in 429 B.C., to the struggle for the political succession, and to the problems presented by Alcibiades' emergence as one of the most powerful figures in the state. This view of Aristophanes reaffirms the central role of allegory in his work and challenges all students of ancient Greece to rethink long-held assumptions about this important playwright.
Author | : Charles E. Schutz |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780838615362 |
Presents and seeks to explain the variety of humor in democratic politics. The humor ranges from the bawdy political comedies of Aristophanes in ancient Athens to the journalistic satires of our daily newspapers, and includes the jokes and comic invective of the people and their politicians.
Author | : Ralph M. Rosen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004424466 |
This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes’ comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.
Author | : Jeffrey Henderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000577538 |
This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These plays, originally a series, are the world’s earliest political satires, and are made available here for the first time in one volume, augmented by full introductions and notes. In these three works, Aristophanes launched satirical attacks on Cleon, the world’s first demagogue, and explored the vulnerability of democracy to populist manipulation and disinformation. Henderson's fresh translations and exploration of the themes within them enable readers to explore the perils facing democracy in its first century which are still with us today. The Introduction offers the reader background on Aristophanes' life, Athenian democracy, classical drama, as well as on political comedy, while introductions to each individual play provide the reader with context. An appendix also collects selected fragments from Aristophanes' lost political plays. Three More Plays by Aristophanes offers an invaluable collection of these works for students and faculty working on classical studies, theatre and theatre history, and drama. The clear translations and contextualizing introductions and notes also make these plays accessible to students of government, law, and political science, and to the general reader interested in any of these subjects.
Author | : Martin Revermann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : 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 | : Todd Compton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. It views the scapegoat as a group's dominant warrior, sent out to confront predators or besieging forces. Both poets and warriors specialize in madness and aggression and are necessary, yet dangerous, to society.
Author | : Marina Marren |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0810144204 |
In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes provide a new perspective on our politics and ethics; they are essential to our civic self-awareness. Marren makes this case by delving into Plato’s Republic, a foundational work of political philosophy. While the Republic straightforwardly condemns the decadence and greed of a tyrant, Plato’s attack on political idealism is both solemn and comedic. In fact, Plato draws on the same comedic stock and tropes as do Aristophanes’s plays. Marren’s book strikes up an innovative conversation between three works by Aristophanes—Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds—and Plato’s philosophy, prompting important questions about individual convictions and one’s personal search for justice. These dialogic works offer critiques of tyranny that are by turns brilliant, scathing, and exuberant, making light of faults and ideals alike. Philosophical comedy exposes despotism in individuals as well as systems of government claiming to be just and good. This critique holds as much bite against contemporary injustices as it did at the time of Aristophanes and Plato. An ingenious new work by an emerging scholar, Plato and Aristophanes shows that comedy—in tandem with philosophy and politics—is essential to self-examination. And without such examination, there is no hope for a just life.
Author | : Niall W. Slater |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002-06-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780812236521 |
Spectator Politics is the first major study of metatheatre, or theatrically self-conscious performance, in Aristophanes. Using a reception-based performance criticism, Niall Slater elucidates the comic effectiveness of the earliest surviving comedies in the Western tradition. Slater demonstrates that Aristophanes employed metatheatre not simply to entertain but also to teach his audience how to read and interpret performance in other key public venues of the ancient democracy of Athens, such as performances in the political assembly and law courts. Aristophanes was, Slater contends, the first performance critic. Spectator Politics shows how Aristophanes' comedy served the Athenians by helping them to become active political participants, teaching them to see through deceptive performances, whether on stage or in the political sphere. His comedies use self-conscious performance to encourage the public to move out of the role of passive consumers of spectacle and to reengage the political process. Aristophanes' critique of performance prefigures much in the performance-dominated culture of the modern American political scene. Throughout, detailed readings of the original stagings illuminate the plays for today's audiences and performers, while Slater's cultural critique provides much for those interested in Athenian democracy and its lesson for the contemporary political scene. Spectator Politics offers a salutary demonstration of the power of art to expose and resist the performance powers of would-be demagogues.