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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xx, 794 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The selection of translations is based on...
Author
Series
Contributions in drama and theatre studies volume no. 67
Pub. Date
1996
Lexile measure
1270L
Physical Desc
xiii, 161 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood....