Tragedy on the comic stage /
Tragedy on the Comic Stage collects and analyzes the evidence for Ancient Greek comedy's engagement with its contemporary dramatic genre, tragedy. Beginning with the comic fragments, this monograph argues that the comic poets of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE depicted a “culture of tragedy”...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
| Language Notes: | In English with some Greek and English translations. |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Tragedy on the Comic Stage collects and analyzes the evidence for Ancient Greek comedy's engagement with its contemporary dramatic genre, tragedy. Beginning with the comic fragments, this monograph argues that the comic poets of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE depicted a “culture of tragedy” in their plays. Comedy's culture of tragedy involved a consistent set of tropes shared across the genre, including depictions of tragic fandom, portrayal of tragic poets as characters, and use of references to the dramatic festivals. The other prominent mode of engagement with tragedy in this period was parody; this book argues that tragic parody in the comic fragments must be read as a complex, subtle form of allusion requiring a connoisseurship of tragedy for full understanding. Having established these forms of paratragedy in the comic fragments, Tragedy on the Comic Stage presents a series of readings of intact comedies by Aristophanes that exemplify tragic culture and tragic parody, focusing on Wasps, Women at the Thesmophoria, and Wealth. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2016. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190492090 0190492090 9780190492083 0190492082 |