Acharnians. Knights. Clouds. Wasps. Peace
Title | Acharnians. Knights. Clouds. Wasps. Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Drama |
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Title | Acharnians. Knights. Clouds. Wasps. Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Title | The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, and Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Athens (Greece) |
ISBN |
Library has volume 1.
Title | Clouds PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780674995376 |
Title | Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Halliwell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2022-02-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192670840 |
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes. It contains four of his most overtly political plays: Acharnians, in which an Athenian farmer rebels against the city's war policies; Knights, a biting satire of populist demagogues; Wasps, whose main theme is the Athenian system of lawcourts; and Peace, in which escape from war is symbolized in images of rustic fertility and sensuality. The translation combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. Each play is presented with a thought-provoking introduction and extensive editorial notes to accompany the vivid translations, balancing performability with faithfulness to the original.
Title | Knights PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | Greek drama |
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Title | Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2018-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192695177 |
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. The volume presents Clouds, with its famous caricature of the philosopher Socrates; Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), a work which mixes elaborate parody of tragedy with a great deal of transvestite burlesque; and Frogs, in which the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides engage in a vituperative contest of 'literary criticism' of each other's plays. Featuring expansive introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes, the volume also includes an illuminating appendix, which provides information and selected fragments from the lost plays of Aristophanes.
Title | Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Telò |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2016-04-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 022630972X |
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.