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  title info:
    title: Cratinus and the art of comedy
  name:
    name part: Bakola, Emmanuela.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2010
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
  abstract: Cratinus, one of the great lost poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy and a canonical author of the classical world, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. In what is the first major monograph in the best part of a century devoted to this author, Emmanuela Bakola offers a modern, comprehensive overview of Cratinus and his position within the genre of Greek comedy using a methodologically innovative approach. Unlike traditional ways of addressing fragmentary drama, this book does not merely reconstruct plays or texts, but by drawing on a range of hermeneutic frameworks, it adopts a thematic approach which allows her to explore Cratinus' poetics. Major issues which this book addresses include the creation of a poetic persona within a performative tradition of vigorous interpoetic rivalry; comedy's interaction with lyric poetry, iambos, and the literary-critical debates reflected by these genres; the play with the boundaries of the comic genre and the interaction with satyr drama and tragedy, especially Aeschylus; the multiple levels of comic plot-construction and characterization; comedy's reflection on its immediate political, social, and intellectual context; stagecraft and dramaturgy; comedy and ritual. Whilst being firmly based on principles of rigorous textual analysis, philology, and papyrology, by taking a broad and diverse outlook this study offers not just an insight into Cratinus, but a way of opening up and enriching our understanding of fifth-century Athenian comedy in a dynamic evolving environment.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Poetic Persona and Poetic Voice in Cratinus' Comedy -- 2. Cratinus and the Satyr Play -- 3. Cratinus and Tragedy -- 4. Myth, Politics, and Drama: Elements of Plot-Composition in the Comedy of Cratinus -- 5. Production and Imagination -- Appendix 1. The Parabasis Proper of Cratinus' Dionysalexandros (POxy 663, ll. 6-9) -- Appendix 2. The Date of the Accusations against Phidias and his Trial -- Appendix 3. Papyrus fragments of Plutoi -- Appendix 4. Hypothesis to Dionysalexandros (POxy 663).
  note: Emmanuela Bakola.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-353) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cratinus
      name part: -approximately 420 B.C
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cratinus
      name part: -approximately 420 B.C
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama (Comedy)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Comédie grecque
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: DRAMA
    topic: Ancient, Classical & Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama (Comedy)
  classification: PA3948.C84 B35 2010eb
  classification: 882/.01
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 100304
    record change date: 20260318175228.1
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng