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Ancient comedy and reception : essays in honor of Jeffrey Henderson /

This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages. It concl...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Olson, S. Douglas (Editor ), Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946- (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
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  • Foreword; Ancient Comedy and Receptions; Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes; Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression; Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes; Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus; Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy?; Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di Aristofane; Dionysus' Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes' Paraenetic Pedigree; Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes?; Plato's Aristophanes; Menander's Samia and the Phaedra Theme.
  • Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus and Terence's Eunuchus)Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus: Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes?; Plautus und die Techniken des Improvisationstheaters; Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra's Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard (Plautus Merc. 817-29); "Letting It All Hang Out": Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman Satire; Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical Problem; Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman Fiction.
  • From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient NovelGreek Culture as Images: Menander's Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek East; The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of Menander; Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions; Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' Amphitryon; Aristofane mascherato: Un secolo (1415-1504) di fortuna e 'sfortuna'; L'influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni Pontano.
  • Strepsiades' Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes' CloudsThe Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell'Arte; Aristophanes in England, 1500-1660; Exaggerating Terence's Andria: Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy's The Perjur'd Devotee and Terentian Criticism; Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text; Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition; Jacob Masen's Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater; La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española.
  • Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792)Modern Receptions; Polos und Polis: Aristophanes' Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks; Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19th century; Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes' Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s; Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine; She (Don't) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of Lysistrata; "Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!": Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes.