Screen LibraryAncient comedy and reception : essays in honor of Jeffrey Henderson /
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...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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1 online resource(xi,1086pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | 2 vols., ca. 1100 pages total |
| ISBN: | 9781614511250 |
| Index Number: | PA3028 |
| CLC: | I545.073 |
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes / Comic Parrh sia 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 / Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander s Kolax in Three Roman Receptions / 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 / "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 / From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient Novel / Greek 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 Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus Amphitryon / Aristofane mascherato: Un secolo (1415 1504) di fortuna e Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text / Moli re and the Roman Comic Tradition / Jacob Masen s Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater / La recepci n de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura espa ola / Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792) / Polos und Polis: Aristophanes V gel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks / Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19 / 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 R stung zu fahren!": Erich K stners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes / Lysistrata on Broadway / "Attend, O Muse, Our Holy Dances and Come to Rejoice in Our Songs": The Reception of Aristophanes in the Modern Musical Theater / Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s 1960s / Cultural Politics and Aesthetic Debate in Two Modern Versions of Aristophanes Frogs / Ionesco s New and Old Comedy / Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, The Metamorphoses of Lysistrata / Who s Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century Italy / Aristophanes in Israel: Comedy, Theatricality, Politics / Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans / The Maculate Muse in the 21 / Eschyle et Euripide entre trag die et |