New Perspectives On Postclassical Comedy

Author : Antonis Petrides
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152755158X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy written by Antonis Petrides and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PIERIDES II, Series Editors: Philip Hardie and Stratis Kyriakidis The re-emergence of Menander from the landfills of Egypt in the late-19th century and the subsequent discovery of the Bodmer Codex in the 1950s caused a sensation among scholars. After a period in which the primary editing and reconstruction of the substantially preserved plays and fragments was the main line of criticism, scholars were finally in a position to take a deep breath and look at Menander and New Comedy, both Greek and Roman, in wider contexts of interpretation and with fresh perspectives drawn from innovative work both in Classical and more modern studies. This book aims to showcase these new approaches to postclassical comedy. The individual contributions, six in total, approach New Comedy as theatrical performance, but also as a dynamic player in the socio-political discourses of the polis culture that gave birth to it. The chapters highlight continuities as well as discontinuities with the cultural and literary past of Athens and the Greek world, but mostly emphasise the progressiveness of New Comedy as a genre and its importance for the nascent culture of Hellenism and Rome thereafter. Blume’s introductory chapter tells the story of Menander’s re-emergence from the tenebrae in full detail. The other five chapters are dual in nature: expositional of a method, but also practical examples of it. They are arranged in a fashion which underlines the major theoretical underpinnings of New Comedy studies, as they are being developed in the present: Cultural Studies (David Konstan and Susan Lape), Intertextuality and Performance (Antonis K. Petrides and Rosanna Omitowoju), and Reception in Rome (Sophia Papaioannou).

Author : Maurice Charney
Publisher : New York Literary Forum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comedy written by Maurice Charney and published by New York Literary Forum. This book was released on 1978 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyranny and comedy / Daniel Gerould -- Black humor: to weep with laughing / Mathew Winston -- From Pyrrhonic to Vomedic irony / Morton Gurewitch -- Physical deformity and chivalric laughter in Renaissance England / John J. O'Connor -- Jacobean comedy and the acquisitive grasp / Malcolm Kiniry -- Hegel's theory of comedy / Anne Paolucci -- Smiles and laughter: some neurologic, developmental, and psychodynamic considerations / Herbert J. Levowitz -- Humor's devaluations in a modern idiom: the Don Juan plays of Shaw, Frisch, and Montherlant / Margaret Ganz -- The season of Twelfth Night / Ralph Berry -- Comic premises of Twelfth Night / Maurice Charney -- The sweetest rose: As You Like It as comedy of reconciliation / Charles Frey -- Travesties and the importance of being Stoppard / Coppélia Kahn -- Clearings in the jungle of life: the comedies of S.N. Behrman / Cyrus Hoy -- Candy in context / William Walling -- A pratfall can be a beautiful thing / B.H. Fussell -- Superheterodyne: radio comedy of the thirties / Don Wiener -- The reporter as comic writer: A.J. Liebling / Elmer M. Blistein -- Georges Feydeau's Hortense Said, "No Skin Off My Ass!" translated with an introduction / Norman R. Shaprio.

Author : Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107068436
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menander, New Comedy and the Visual written by Antonis K. Petrides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.

Author : Michael Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199743541
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy written by Michael Fontaine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.

Author : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435123
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Comedy written by Gesine Manuwald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of ‘Roman comedy’, including primarily fabula palliata (‘New Comedy’, as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as fabula togata, fabula Atellana, mimus and pantomimus.

Author : Valeria Cinaglia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004282823
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Menander on the Ethics of Understanding written by Valeria Cinaglia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aristotle and Menander on the Ethics of Understanding, Valeria Cinaglia offers a parallel study of Menander’s New Comedy and Aristotle’s philosophy focusing on subjects ranging from epistemology and psychology to ethics. Cinaglia does not aim to demonstrate the direct philosophical influence of Aristotle on Menander, but explores the hypothesis that there are significant analogies between the two that disclose a shared thought-world. Cinaglia shows that Aristotle and Menander offer analogous views of the way that perceptions and emotional responses to situations are linked with the presence or absence of ethical and cognitive understanding, or the state of ethical character development: the study of these analogies contributes to a deeper understanding of both frameworks involved.

Author : Sophia Papaioannou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527547841
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plautus' Erudite Comedy written by Sophia Papaioannou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandrianism was among the trends that defined the formation of Roman literature across genres since the early decades of Roman literary history. This volume introduces a collection of original essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of the comedy of Plautus, the leading representative of Roman comedy, as a multi-faceted text that engages in a creative dialogue with various contemporary cultural and literary developments. The studies here, both individually and as parts of a longer, interactive discussion, offer a comprehensive examination of the first complete expression of the intellectual reception of Greek and Hellenistic literature and culture in Rome, and, at the same time, examine Plautus’ correspondence with the popularization of science and medicine, the Romanization of philosophy, and contemporary religious practices. As the first Latin poet whose work survives in extant form, Plautus is also examined here as a major literary figure who significantly influenced the development of Latin literature. This book will appeal to specialist scholars of Roman comedy, but also to graduate students working in the fields of classics and literary history. All long quotations of Greek and Latin are translated.

Author : Terence
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN 13 : 0856686069
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terence written by Terence and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence's Phormio, based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. What makes the Phormio unique amongst Terence's works is the central importance of the witty and scheming parasite who gives his name to the play and directs and controls its action throughout, even when absent from the stage. The use of the "double" plot with its two young men in love and two contrasting fathers provides ample scope for depth and variety of characterisation. The aim of the present edition is to bring out to the full Terence's skill in plot development and character portrayal which was to make the Phormio one of his most entertaining plays. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350187585
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity written by Michael Ewans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century BCE. It explores the range of comedies during this period, which were fictional dramas that engaged with the political and social concerns of ancient society, and also at times with mythology and tragedy. The volume centres largely around the surviving work of Aristophanes and Menander in Athens, and Plautus and Terence in Rome, but authors whose plays survive only in fragments are also discussed. Performances and plays drew on a range of forms, including satire and fantasy, and were designed to entertain and amuse their audiences while also asking them to question issues of morality, privilege and class. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to ancient comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.

Author : Angela M. Heap
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472528069
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask written by Angela M. Heap and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on papyrus. The mystery of their loss and rediscovery has raised key questions surrounding the transmission of these and other Greek texts. Theatrical masks from the fourth century BCE discovered on the island of Lipari now also provide important material with which this book examines how the plays were originally performed. A detailed investigation of their historical setting is offered which engages with recent debates on the importance of social status and citizenship in Menander's plays. The techniques of characterization are also examined, with particular focus on women, slaves and power relationships in his Epitrepontes. It appears that the audience was invited, sometimes subversively, behind the mask of this sophisticated comedy to discover that people do not always conform to literary expectations and social norms.