Matthew C Farmer

Tragedy on the Comic Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780190492076
• ISBN-10: 0190492074
• Artikelnr.: 47869744

Autorenporträt

Matthew C. Farmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction
Part OneThe Fragments of Greek Comedy
Chapter One
Electra and the Coal Pan: Tragic Culture in the Comic Fragments
Chapter Two
Give Me a Bit of Paratragedy: Tragic Parody in the Comic Fragments
Part Two Aristophanes
Chapter Three
The Man Is Obsessed with Song: A Contest of Genres in Wasps
Chapter Four
Euripides in the Echo Chamber: Poets and their Poetry in Women at the Thesmophoria
Chapter Five
Writing Beyond Genres: The Dionysiac Festival in Gerytades and Wealth
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index