| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 1086 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Foreword; Ancient Comedy and Receptions; Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes; Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression; Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes; Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus; Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy?; Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di Aristofane; Dionysus' Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes' Paraenetic Pedigree; Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes?; Plato's Aristophanes; Menander's Samia and the Phaedra Theme |
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Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus and Terence's Eunuchus)Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus: Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes?; Plautus und die Techniken des Improvisationstheaters; Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra's Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard (Plautus Merc. 817-29); "Letting It All Hang Out": Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman Satire; Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical Problem; Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman Fiction |
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From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient NovelGreek Culture as Images: Menander's Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek East; The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of Menander; Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions; Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' Amphitryon; Aristofane mascherato: Un secolo (1415-1504) di fortuna e 'sfortuna'; L'influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni Pontano |
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Strepsiades' Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes' CloudsThe Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell'Arte; Aristophanes in England, 1500-1660; Exaggerating Terence's Andria: Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy's The Perjur'd Devotee and Terentian Criticism; Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text; Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition; Jacob Masen's Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater; La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española |
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Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792)Modern Receptions; Polos und Polis: Aristophanes' Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks; Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19th century; Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes' Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s; Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine; She (Don't) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of Lysistrata; "Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!": Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes |
| Summary |
This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages. It concludes with a look at the modern era, taking into account literary translations and stage productions as well as modern media such as radio and film |
| Notes |
"This volume represents an attempt to offer not a systematic history of the comic genre from Graeco-Roman times to today, but a series of interconnected studies of some of the most important moments and figures in that history. These studies are dedicated to Jeffrey Henderson, whose Maculate Muse (1975) and critical edition and commentary on Aristophanes' Lysistrata (1987) -- among other major scholarly contributions -- have decisively shaped the way Athenian 'Old Comedy' is read and received today."--Foreword |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Text primarily in English; some essays in French, Italian, German and Spanish |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed September 17, 2014) |
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Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
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Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
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DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Greek drama (Comedy)
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Latin drama (Comedy)
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Komödie
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Griechisch
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Latein
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Rezeption
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Festschriften
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Olson, S. Douglas, editor
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Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946- honouree
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| ISBN |
9781614511250 |
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161451125X |
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9781614511267 |
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1614511268 |
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