Gwendolyn Compton-Engle

Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9781107083790
• ISBN-10: 1107083796
• Artikelnr.: 41959840

Autorenporträt

Gwendolyn Compton-Engle is Associate Professor of Classics at John Carroll University. She has taught at Colgate University and St Olaf College. She has published several articles on Aristophanes, including one that was awarded the Gildersleeve Prize from the American Journal of Philology in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: comic costume in action
2. The comic body as costume
3. Cloaks, shoes, and societal redress
4. Disguise, gender, and the poet
5. Animal costumes and choral spectacle
6. Conclusion.