Aristophanes: Frogs
«This volume is a perfect companion to Frogs: essential and joyful for anyone reading, teaching or performing Aristophanes, or really any ancient Greek play.»
Wilfred Major, Associate Professor of Classics, Louisiana State University, USA
A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes’ Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history. Les mer
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It is also genuinely funny, showcasing a range of comic techniques, including literary and musical parody, political invective, grotesque distortion, wordplay, prop comedy, and funny costumes. Frogs has inspired literary works by Henry Fielding, George Bernard Shaw, and Tom Stoppard.
This book explores all of these features in a series of short chapters designed to be accessible to a new reader of ancient comedy. It proceeds linearly through the play, addressing a range of issues, but paying particular attention to stagecraft and performance. It also offers a bold new interpretation of the play, suggesting that the action of Frogs was not the first time Euripides and Aeschylus had competed against each other.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 176
- ISBN
- 9781350080911
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«This volume is a perfect companion to Frogs: essential and joyful for anyone reading, teaching or performing Aristophanes, or really any ancient Greek play.»
Wilfred Major, Associate Professor of Classics, Louisiana State University, USA