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Book G  M  Sifakis  Parabasis and animal choruses  A contribution to the history of attic comedy

Download or read book G M Sifakis Parabasis and animal choruses A contribution to the history of attic comedy written by Gian Franco Gianotti and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book G M  Sifakis  Parabasis and Animal Choruses

Download or read book G M Sifakis Parabasis and Animal Choruses written by Hans-Joachim Newiger and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parabasis and Animal Choruses

Download or read book Parabasis and Animal Choruses written by Gregory Michael Sifakis and published by G. M. Sifakis. This book was released on 1971 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parabasis and Animals Choruses

Download or read book Parabasis and Animals Choruses written by G.M.. SIFAKIS and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FrC 3 6 Kratinos

Download or read book FrC 3 6 Kratinos written by Douglas Olson and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to the over 200 fragments of Cratinus for which have no play title. Much of the material has never been commented on previously. Douglas Olson and Ryan Seaberg offer a close literary, philological and historical study of the fragments, with particular attention to textual, poetic and linguistic issues of all sorts and to the lexicographic sources that preserve the material. Their general goal is to open up problems and perspectives rather than to shut them down. By teasing out some of their individual puzzles and peculiarities they want to render the fragments accessible to further scholarly work. The commentary of the Fragmenta Comica series illuminate not only the genre history of comedy, but also the Greek literary history of the Classical and Hellenistic period.

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    Book Details:
  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2004-09-30
  • ISBN : 0199265275
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book written by Aristophanes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae is the story of a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays. Austin and Olson offer a fresh text of the play; an extensive introduction; and a detailed commentary; most Greek cited in the introduction and commentary is translated, and much of the edition is accessible to non-specialists.

Book Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson

Download or read book Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson written by Tom Harrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.

Book Theatre in Ancient Greek Society

Download or read book Theatre in Ancient Greek Society written by J. R. Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theatre in Ancient Greek Society the author examines the social setting and function of ancient Greek theatre through the thousand years of its performance history. Instead of using written sources, which were intended only for a small, educated section of the population, he draws most of his evidence from a wide range of archaeological material - from cheap, mass-produced vases and figurines to elegant silverware produced for the dining tables of the wealthy. This is the first study examining the function and impact of the theatre in ancient Greek society by employing an archaeological approach.

Book Satyric Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl A. Shaw
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199950946
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Satyric Play written by Carl A. Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was written by tragedians and employed a number of formal tragic elements, satyr drama is typically categorized as a sub-genre of Greek tragedy. This categorization, however, gives an incomplete picture of the complicated relationship of the satyr play to other genres of drama in ancient Greece. For example, the humorous chorus of half-man, half-horse satyrs suggests sustained interaction between poets of comedy and satyr play. In Satyric Play, Carl Shaw notes the complex, shifting relationship between comedy and satyr drama, from sixth-century BCE proto-drama to classical productions staged at the Athenian City Dionysia and bookish Alexandrian plays of the third century BCE, and argues that comedy and satyr plays influenced each other in nearly all stages of their development. This is the first book to offer a complete, integrated analysis of Greek comedy and satyr drama, analyzing the details of the many literary, aesthetic, historical, religious, and geographical connections to satyr drama. Ancient critics and poets allude to comic-satyric associations in surprising ways, vases indicate a common connection to komos (revelry) song, and the plays themselves often share titles, plots, modes of humor, and even on occasion choruses of satyrs. Shaw's insight into this evidence reveals the relationship between satyr drama and Greek comedy to be much more intimately connected than we had known and, in fact, much closer than that between satyr drama and tragedy. Satyric Play brings new light to satyr drama as a complex, artful, inventive, and even cleverly paradoxical genre.

Book Law  Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens

Download or read book Law Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens written by D.L. Cairns and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. In their detailed and careful use of evidence and deep awareness of social and historical contexts, the essays aspire to standards set by their distinguished honorand, Professor D.M. MacDowell.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre written by Marianne McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.

Book Acharnians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780199275861
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Acharnians written by Aristophanes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. OAcharnians itself, at any rate, took first place and is generally regarded as one of Aristophanes' two or three most brilliant surviving comedies. Olson offers the first complete new scholarly edition of the play in almost a century.

Book Nietzsche on Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. S. Silk
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-09
  • ISBN : 1107144760
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book Nietzsche on Tragedy written by M. S. Silk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This influential book was the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest work, The Birth of Tragedy (1872).

Book A Companion to Aristophanes

Download or read book A Companion to Aristophanes written by Matthew C. Farmer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this innovative volume situates each of Aristophanes' surviving plays within discussion of key themes relevant to the study of the Aristophanic corpus. Throughout the Companion, an international panel of contributors incorporates material culture and performance context, offers methodological and theoretical insights into the study of Aristophanes, demonstrates the relevance of Aristophanes to modern life, and more. Each chapter focused on a particular play is paired with a theme that is exemplified by that play, such as gender, sexuality, religion, ritual, and satire. With an emphasis on understanding Greek comedy and its ancient Athenian context, the text includes approaches to Aristophanes through criticism, performance, translation, and teaching to encourage and inform future work on Greek comedy. Illustrating the vitality of contemporary engagement with one of the world's great literary figures, this comprehensive volume: Helps new readers and teachers of Aristophanes appreciate the broader importance of each play within the study of antiquity Offers sophisticated analyses of the Aristophanic corpus and its place in literary and cultural history Includes chapters focused on teaching Aristophanes, including one emphasizing performance Provides detailed syllabi and lesson plans for integrating the material into high school and college curricula A Companion to Aristophanes is an essential resource for advanced students and instructors in Classics, Ancient Literature, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Drama and Theater. It is also a must-have reference for academic scholars, university libraries, non-specialist Classicists and other literary critics researching ancient drama, and sophisticated general readers interested in Aristophanes, Greek drama, classical Athens, or the ancient Mediterranean world.

Book Comedy  Seriously

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. Nikulin
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 1137415142
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Comedy Seriously written by D. Nikulin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality that reflects philosophical thinking. In particular, that comedy is defined not so much by laughter or jokes, but rather the structure of its plot, which is isomorphic with that of the philosophical argument. Comedy allows for the resolution of a conflict and the achievement of well-being and equality through action that follows the comic plot. Moreover, such action is propelled by the 'thinker on stage,' who, as socially and politically oppressed, contributes to the liberation of all and the achievement of the good life. Comedy, therefore, establishes the universal pattern for justice and well-being and allows us to rethink the notion of subjectivity not as the modern isolated subject, but rather as integrated with others through shared action and dialogical involvement.

Book A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity

Download or read book A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity written by Martin Revermann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime and pantomime operate in Antiquity alongside the conception of theatre as both an entertainment for the masses and a vehicle for intellectual, political and artistic expression. Drawing together contributions from scholars in Classics and Theatre Studies, this volume uniquely examines the Greek and Roman cultural spheres in conjunction with one another rather than in isolation. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Book The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age

Download or read book The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age written by Guy Healy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of diverse online creators – women, ethnic and racial minorities, queer folk and those from hardscrabble backgrounds – producing low budget, high cultural impact web-series which have disrupted longstanding white male domination of the film and TV industries. Author Guy Healy addresses four burning problems faced by creators in the context of digital disruption (along with potential solutions), namely: the sustainability of monetizing digital content and the rising possibility of middle-class artistic careers; algorithmic volatility; the difficulty of finding people to share jealously guarded industry knowledge as traditional craft-based mentoring and expertise-sharing mechanisms break down; and the lack of diversity and authenticity in high-profile storytelling. It includes nine case studies, five drawn from a second wave of outstanding YouTube-developed talent, transitioning to longer form narrative, most collaborating with established TV producers working across the divide between online and established television culture, and all from under-represented and/or minority backgrounds. The balance are film-school and industry professionals leveraging YouTube in the same way, including two Writers Guild of America new media award-winners. These storytellers leverage their social networks and chase sustainable careers by reaching audiences of subscription video-on-demand platforms and mainstream online broadcast in Australia and North America. The Production of Global Web-Series in a Networked Age is the first longitudinal study of this historic rapprochement between online and television cultures. Four of the cases are in Emmy-winning contexts, and one in an Emmy nominated context. Covering 2005–2021, the book reveals distinctive new forms of screen industry convergence with profound implications for creators’ careers, the screen industry in general, new media theory, and broader cultural and social change. It is essential reading for students, academics and industry professionals working on the production and distribution of web series.