Two Old Comedies
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Author | : Kenneth J. Reckford |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807817209 |
Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy: Volume I: Six Essays in Perspective
Author | : William Shakespeare |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Terence |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1766 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
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Author | : Terence |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141915102 |
The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play, The Girl from Andros, Terence portrays a love affair saved by a startling discovery. The Self-Tormentor focusses on a man's remorse after sending his son to war, and The Eunuch depicts a case of mistaken identity. Phormio is as rich in intrigue as a French farce, while The Mother-in-Law shows two families striving to save a marriage and The Brothers contrasts strict and lenient upbringings. With their tight plots and spare dialogue, Terence gave his plays a sense of humanity that became a model in the Renaissance and greatly influenced Molière.
Author | : Donald Perret |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : French drama |
ISBN | : 9782600036900 |
Author | : Alexander Welsh |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300206860 |
For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
Author | : Deborah Kamen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2023-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110651238 |
Slavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to research on this subject, surveying recent scholarly trends and controversies and suggesting future directions for research. Topics include regional variation in slave systems; the economics of slavery; the treatment of enslaved people; sex and gender; agency, resistance, and revolt; manumission; and representations, metaphors, and legacies of Greek slavery. Readers, including those interested in slavery of other time periods, will find this book an essential resource in learning about key issues in Greek slavery studies or in pursuing their own research.
Author | : Terence |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1765 |
Genre | : Comedy |
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Author | : Craig Jendza |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0190090944 |
Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence.