Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy
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Author |
: Mario Telò |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2016-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226309699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022630969X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy by : Mario Telò
Aristophanes and the Generation of Greek Comedy challenges the ways in which both ancient and modern scholarship have created the figure we know as Aristophanes and it builds on Telo's the long-term project to study the genres of ancient Greek literature (particularly plays) as well as genre theory more generally.Telo asks, how did the image we know of Aristophanes arose? Aristophanes' supremacy is traced, by Telo, back to the playwright himself. Early scholars presented Aristophanes' work as a prestigious object, an expression of supposedly transhistorical values of dignity (semnotes) and self-control (sophrosune). This construction of the merits of Aristophanic comedy over that of other varieties depends on its textual connections with other works, particularly tragedies. Telo shows, through close readings of Wasps and Clouds, for example, how the Aristophanic style is actually figured in the plays as the tactile experience of a garment, a soft, protective cloak intended to shield an audience from the debilitating effects of competitors' comedies during the Dionysia. Aristophanes' narratives of sons and fathers, poet and audience, is thus at the center of the discourse that has shaped his canonical dominance ever since.
Author |
: Mario Telò |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2016-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226309729 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022630972X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy by : Mario Telò
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 |
: Gwendolyn Compton-Engle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2015-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107083790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107083796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes by : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
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 |
: Bantam Classics |
Total Pages |
: 594 |
Release |
: 2006-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553902594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553902598 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Complete Plays of Aristophanes by : Aristophanes
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 |
: Aristophanes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1822 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HXIJYC |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (YC Downloads) |
Synopsis The Comedies of Aristophanes ... by : Aristophanes
Author |
: Aristophanes |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2006-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141959481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141959487 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Classical Comedy by : Aristophanes
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 |
: Martin Revermann |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 523 |
Release |
: 2014-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521760287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521760283 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy by : Martin Revermann
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author |
: Aristophanes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 488 |
Release |
: 1912 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:13291484 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristophanes. The Eleven Comedies by : Aristophanes
Author |
: Mario Telò |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814257739 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814257739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Archive Feelings by : Mario Telò
Using classic Greek texts and modern theory, Telò forges a new model of tragic aesthetics.
Author |
: Aristophanes |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 625 |
Release |
: 1984-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780452007178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0452007178 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Plays by Aristophanes by : Aristophanes
Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist—and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing—at once bawdy and delicate—brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. His messages are as timely and relevant today as they were in ancient Greece, and his plays still provoke laughter—and thought. This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds, translated by three of the most distinguished translators and classicists of our time.