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Author : Aristophanes,Thomas Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : HARVARD:HXG97M
Author : Aristophanes,Thomas Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : HARVARD:HXIJVV
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019819960
Author : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107083790
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 : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590029919
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:P101132216018
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
ISBN : UCAL:B3131367
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403865413
Author : Katherine Lever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000579307
Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life. Aristophanes and Menander are deservedly the most famous writers of Greek comedy. The extant comedies of Aristophanes are notable for wit, comical action, beautiful poetry, and the dramatization of such problems as health of mind and body, sex, money, government, law, religion, education, and drama, music and poetry. Menander portrays with delicate and sympathetic understanding a world in which the seeming evils of loss and discord eventually lead to the genuine goods of discovery and concord. The art of Aristophanes is critically examined in three chapters and that of Menander in one. For centuries Dionysos had been worshipped in a spirit of ecstasy which manifested itself in song, dance and the wearing of masks and costumes, pantomime, farce, and satire. The processes by which these diverse elements were developed and fused into the complex literary form of Old Comedy are the subject of the first three chapters. Aristophanes was not only pre-eminent as a writer of Old Comedy; he also participated in the transformation of Old Comedy into Middle Comedy, a curious and interesting dramatic form which is fully treated in the seventh chapter. In the last chapter the emergence of New Comedy is traced and the art of Menander criticized. The book ends with a brief indication of the various forms in which the spirit of Greek comedy had survived to the present day.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781631496332
Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata, in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds, in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly, Aristophones’s most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian’s new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones’s original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.
Author : Kenneth J. Reckford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469639857
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 : Aristophanes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625582690
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,Menander,Plautus,Terence
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141959481
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 : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:12305934
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00107845
