The birth of comedy : texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280

Weitere Verfasser: Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946-
Rusten, Jeffrey S.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Umfang/Format: xx, 794 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Proto-comedy : literary and visual evidence for the precursors of comedy in 6th century Greece
  • Epicharmus of Sicily
  • Festivals, competitions, victory-lists
  • The first and second generations (except Cratinus)
  • Cratinus
  • Eupolis
  • Aristophanes
  • Phrynichus and Platon
  • Other authors ca. 420-390 BCE
  • Theater, audience, actors, chorus, and costume of old and middle comedy : texts, statuettes, and paintings (also from outside Athens)
  • Scenes from old or middle comedy on 4th-century southern Italian vases
  • Anaxandrides, Eubulus, Ephippus
  • Antiphanes
  • Timocles and nicostratus
  • Alexis
  • Other authors of middle comedy
  • The masks of new comedy in texts and images; actors of new comedy; acting techniques; other developments in staging
  • Philemon
  • Menander
  • Diphilus of Sinope
  • Other new comedy authors.