The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman comedy / edited by Michael Fontaine and Adele C. Scafuro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fontaine, Michael, editor.

Scafuro, Adele C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Latin drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Latin drama (Comedy).

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Handbook of Greek and Roman comedy

Greek and Roman comedy

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.

Contents:

Ancient comedy : the longue durée / Adele C. Scafuro

In search of the essence of old comedy : from Aristotle's Poetics to Zieliński, Cornford, and beyond / Jeffrey Rusten

Performing comedy in the fifth through early third centuries / Eric Csapo

Dionysiac festivals in Athens and the financing of comic performances / Andronike Makres

The first poets of old comedy / Ian Storey

The last laugh : Eupolis, Strattis, and Plato against Aristophanes / Mario Telò

Aristophanes / Bernhard Zimmermann

Comedy in the fourth century I : mythological burlesques / Ionnis M. Konstantakos

Comedy in the fourth century II : politics and domesticity / Jeffrey Henderson

Comedy in the late fourth and early third centuries BCE / Adele C. Scafuro

Menander / Adele C. Scafuro

Reconstructing Menander / Alain Blanchard

Crossing genres : comedy, tragedy, and satyr play / Johanna Hanink

Crossing conceptual worlds : Greek comedy and philosophy / David Konstan

The politics of comic Athens / David Rosenbloom

Law and Greek comedy / Emiliano J. Buis

Religion and the gods in Greek comedy / Scott Scullion

The diffusion of comedy from the age of Alexander to the beginning of the Roman Empire / Brigitte le Guen

Hellenistic mime and its reception in Rome / Costas Panayotakis

The beginnings of Roman comedy / Peter G. McC. Brown

Festivals, producers, theatrical spaces, and records / George Fredric Franko

Plautus between Greek comedy and Atellan farce : assessments and reassessments / Antonis K. Petrides

Plautus's dramatic predecessors and contemporaries in Rome / Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo

Plautus and Terence in performance / Erica M. Bexley

Metrics and music / Marcus Deufert

Prologue(s) and Prologi / Boris Dunsch

Between two paradigms : Plautus / Michael Fontaine

The Terentian reformation : from Menander to Alexandria / Michael Fontaine

The language of the Palliata / Evangelos Karakasis

Tragedy, paratragedy, and Roman comedy / Gesine Manuwald

Roman comedy and the social scene / Erich Gruen

Law and Roman comedy / Ian Felix Gaertner

Religion in Roman comedy / Boris Dunsch

The transmission of Aristophanes / Nigel Wilson

Later Greek comedy in later antiquity / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

The rebirth of a codex : virtual work on the Ambrosian palimpsest of Plautus / Walter Stockert

The transmission of Terence / Benjamin Victor

Graphic comedy : Menandrian mosaics and Terentian miniatures / Sebastiana Nervegna

Greek comedy, the novel, and epistolography / Regina Höschele

Roman comedy in the second sophistic / Regine May

The reception of Plautus in antiquity / Rolando Ferri

Aelius Donatus and his commentary on Terence's comedies / Chrysanthi Demetriou.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2013).

ISBN:

9780199983728

0199983720

9780199389469

0199389462