Classical Comedy

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959487
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135213232
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Hollywood Comedy written by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

Author : Tom Rothfield
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761813651
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Tom Rothfield and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Comedy- An Armoury of Laughter, Democracy's Bastion of Defence repudiates Aristotle's claim in Poetics, that tragedy was the jewel of fifth century democracy, arguing that the claim belongs to comedy, as a brilliantly entertaining defense of social values and standards. Tom Rothfield examines every aspect of classicism, analyzing comedy's origins, and structure, to demonstrate the reasons for classical comedy's universal and continued significance. He breaks down theatrical mechanisms, including the playhouse, masks, costumes, a comedian's comic skills, the playwright's inventive genius in plot development, character development, and effective jokes. Through his analysis, Rothfield demonstrates the classical framework, and classical comic criteria that provides an unrivalled model for contemporary theater.

Author : Robert W. Corrigan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 147684190X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy - Greek and Roman written by Robert W. Corrigan and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata , translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds , translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch , translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi , translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House , translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor , translated by Palmer Bovie.

Author : Robert W. Corrigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1476841918
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman written by Robert W. Corrigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight ä varied stimulating broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century. ä Leonard C. Pronko author ÊTheatre East and WestÊ Chair Dept. of Theatre Pomona College. Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor translated by Palmer Bovie.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Comedy written by Aristophanes and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1994-03-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.

Author : Leo Salingar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521291132
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy written by Leo Salingar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731750
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Comedy written by David Konstan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." David Konstan looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra. Offering new interpretations of each, he develops a "typology of plot forms" by analyzing structural features and patterns of conventional behavior in the plays, and he relates the results of his literary analysis to contemporary social conditions. He argues that the plays address tensions that were potentially disruptive to the ancient city-state, and that they tended to resolve these tensions in ways that affirmed traditional values. Roman Comedy is an innovative and challenging book that will be welcomed by students of classical literature, ancient social history, the history of the theater, and comedy as a genre.

Author : James Feibleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579239
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Comedy written by James Feibleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939, the original blurb reads: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do about comedy. What is comedy itself? In this work the history of comic instances is combed in the search for the truth about comedy. Today, when laughter is stifled in so many countries, an exposition of comedy shows it to have a universal and necessary character. Comedy, as its natures reveals, is one criterion of the state of human culture; it is highly contemporary and requires freedom – but freedom for adventure, not for routine. After a chapter devoted to the explanation of a logical theory of comedy, the modern comedians are examined, and the humour of every one, from the Marx Brothers to surrealism, from Gertrude Stein to Mickey Mouse, from James Joyce to Charlie Chaplin, is shown to be a constant, inherent in the same set of unchanging conditions.

Author : Allison Williams
Publisher : Theatrefolk
ISBN 13 : 1926533232
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MmmBeth written by Allison Williams and published by Theatrefolk. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A hilarious mixed-gender take on the Scottish play! Everything goes wrong. The witches take over the storytelling, Queen Duncan would rather open a donut franchise than die, Lady M's a bloodthirsty June Cleaver, and the murderers are preoccupied with creating a commercial for their services"--Back cover.