The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

Weitere Verfasser: Revermann, Martin
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Umfang/Format: xvii, 498 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Cambridge companions to literature
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 23 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction Martin Revermann; Part I. Setting the Stage (in Athens and Beyond): 1. Defining the genre David Konstan; 2. The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander ZACHARY P. BILES; 3. Fourth-century comedy before Menander KEITH SIDWELL; 4. Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy KATHRYN BOSHER; 5. The iconography of comedy ERIC CSAPO; Part II. Comic Theatre: 6. Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy C. W. MARSHALL; 7. Character types IAN RUFFELL; 8. The language(s) of comedy ANDREAS WILLI; Part III. Central Themes: 9. Laughter Stephen Halliwell; 10. Utopianism IAN RUFFELL; 11. The Greek 'comic hero' RALPH M. ROSEN; 12. Social class DAVID KAWALKO ROSELLI; 13. Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy HELENE FOLEY; 14. Divinity and religious practice MARTIN REVERMANN; Part IV. Politics, Law and Social History: 15. The politics of Greek comedy ALAN SOMMERSTEIN; 16. Comedy and Athenian festival culture EDITH HALL; 17. Comedy and Athenian law VICTORIA WOHL; 18. Comedy and the social historian SUSAN LAPE and ALFONSO MORENO; Part V. Reception: 19. Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions RICHARD HUNTER; 20. Contexts of reception in antiquity SEBASTIANA NERVEGNA; 21. The reception of Greek comedy in Rome MICHAEL FONTAINE; 22. The transmission of comic texts NIGEL WILSON; 23. Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander: from spontaneous reception to belated reception study GONDA VAN STEEN.