Aristophanes And The Cloak Of Comedy

Author : Mario Telò
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226309729

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Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy by Mario Telò Pdf

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.

Author : Aristophanes,Thomas Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : HARVARD:HXG97M

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The Comedies of Aristophanes ... by Aristophanes,Thomas Mitchell Pdf

Author : Aristophanes,Menander,Plautus,Terence
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141959481

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Classical Comedy by Aristophanes,Menander,Plautus,Terence Pdf

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.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553902594

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Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Pdf

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.

Author : M. S. Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 019925382X

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Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy by M. S. Silk Pdf

All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107083790

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Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes by Gwendolyn Compton-Engle Pdf

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.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : CHI:13291484

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Aristophanes. The Eleven Comedies by Aristophanes Pdf

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625582690

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The Eleven Comedies - Complete by Aristophanes Pdf

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.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472061534

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Three Comedies by Aristophanes Pdf

A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.

Author : Kenneth Rothwell
Publisher : Oxford Greek and Latin College
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190907402

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Aristophanes' Wasps by Kenneth Rothwell Pdf

Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that readers of any time and place can appreciate. A father and son argue about politics, household servants try to please their master, a disruptive gang of the father's friends decide to intervene, a dog becomes a lightning-rod for his antics in the kitchen, attempts are made at reform and reconciliation, and it all ends with a drinking party that goes disastrously wrong. The father, Philocleon, and his friends, the chorus of wasp-like old men for whom the play is named, are some of the great creations of comic drama. The characters of the Wasps make constant references to the everyday world they are living in: its political demagogues, court system, religious rituals, social niceties, class distinctions, diseases, clothes, food, toilets, paychecks, geography, weather, household items, literary and mythological allusions, military experiences, and much more. These references give the play its immediacy, but their unfamiliarity to modern students can pose a challenge. This edition provides a full introduction devoted to the political, social, and literary background of the play, as well as notes to the text explaining historical details.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192824082

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Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

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.

Author : Nikoletta Kanavou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110247060

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Aristophanes' Comedy of Names by Nikoletta Kanavou Pdf

Aristophanes, the celebrated Greek comic poet, is famous for his plays on contemporary themes, in which he exercises fierce political satire. Ancient political comedy made ample use of comically significant proper names - much as is the case in modern satire. Comic names used by Aristophanes for his satirical targets (public figures, everyday Athenians) provide the main subject of this book, which addresses questions such as why particular names are chosen (or invented), and how they relate to the plays' characters and themes.

Author : Kenneth J. Reckford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469639857

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Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy by Kenneth J. Reckford Pdf

This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation. A better approach, he decided, would be to define a comic perspective within which Aristophanes' comedies in general as well as the Clouds in particular could be appreciated. This first volume of Reckford's defense examines the comedies as a whole in a series of defining essays, each with its own dominant concern and method of approach. The author begins by exploring not the usual questions of Aristophanes' political attitudes and his place in the development of comedy, but rather the festive, celebratory, and Dionysian nature of Old Comedy. Here and throughout the book Reckford illustrates Aristophanes' form of comedy with analogies to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Charlie Chaplin, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In the remaining essays Reckford goes beyond the usual Freudian approaches, reinterpreting the comic catharsis as a clarification of wishing and hoping. He also explores the growth of plays from comic idea to comic performance, in ways reflected in Tom Stoppard's plays today. Only then are Aristophanes' basic political loyalties described, as well as the place of his old- and-new comedy within the history of the genre. In a book that is as much about comedy generally as it is about Aristophanes specifically, some plays are treated more fully than others. Reckford discusses the Wasps at length, comparing the symbolic transformations and comic recognitions in the play with dream experience and dream interpretation. He also analyzes the Peace, the Acharians, the Birds, and the Frogs. Reckford's vindication of the Clouds will appear in the second volume of his defense, Clouds of Glory. Reckford's playful translations preserve the puns and anachronisms of Aristophanes, maintaining the playwright's comic feeling and tone. Combining traditional classical scholarship with a variety of literary, psychological, and anthropological approaches, he has written a study that will appeal to both the academic audience and the general reader who cares about comedy. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Timothy J. Moore
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781624661877

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Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies by Timothy J. Moore Pdf

Three Comedies features the work of three dramatic geniuses of the glorious, no-holds-barred tradition of ancient Athenian comedy. Here Aristophanes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of Old and Middle Comedy meets Menander, elephant in the room of New Comedy, in a match made possible by Douglass Parker--if not Athenian exactly, or even ancient, possibly the maddest chameleon ever to absorb the true colors of an ancient choral song, transpose a lost pun, or channel a venerable, giant, dung-eating cockroach for the benefit of those who couldn’t be there the first time. Timothy J. Moore offers concise and informative introductions and notes to Parker’s brilliant translation of Aristophanes' fantastical Peace and Money, the God and Menander’s lively, domestic Samia--and includes, as a bonus, Parker's James Constantine Lecture at the University of Virginia, "A Desolation Called Peace: Trials of an Aristophanic Translator."

Author : Daniel Holmes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498590778

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Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes's Birds by Daniel Holmes Pdf

Aristophanes was clearly anxious about the role of the sophists and the “new” education in Athens. After the perceived failure of Clouds in 423 and its subsequent, unperformed revision, Aristophanes, this book argues, returned in 414 with Birds, a continuation and deepening of his critique found in Clouds. Peisetaerus or “persuader of his comrades,” the protagonist of Birds, though an old man, is clearly a student of Socrates’ phrontisterion. Unlike Socrates, however, he is political and ambitious and he understands the whole of human nature, both rational and irrational. Peisetaerus employs the various deconstructive techniques of Socrates and his allies (which is summed up on the comic sage in the image of “father-beating”) to overturn not just human society, but, with the help of his new allies, the divine and musical birds, the cosmos. After his new gods and bird city, Cloudcuckooland, are actually established, however, the hero re-introduces the “old” ways - justice, moderation, and obedience to law – but now under his personal authority, and thereby becomes “the highest of the gods.” Thus, the author postulates, in 414 Aristophanes has come to acknowledge the potency of the apparent civic-minded turn (or element) of the sophists, while aware of the self-aggrandizing nature of their ambition. Peisetaerus, unlike Socrates, is successful: he is establishing a just polis and cosmos and, therefore, must be victorious. But the consequence or cost of this success is illustrated through the Bird Chorus. After the polis is founded, the birds never again sing of their musical reciprocity with the Muses, the source of melodies for men. The birds are now political and the policemen of human beings. The sophist-run cosmos has lost its music. The new Zeus is an ugly bird-mutant. The gods and all nomoi have lost their beauty, honor, and reverential nature. Birds, in its finale, hilariously, but boldlyilluminates the inherent tension between philosophy (reason) and poetry (divinely-inspired tradition).