Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson

Author:   S. Douglas Olson
Publisher:   De Gruyter
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Pages:   1097
Publication Date:   19 December 2013
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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, this book discusses Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages.

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Author:   S. Douglas Olson
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 6.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.953kg
ISBN:  

9781614511663


ISBN 10:   1614511667
Pages:   1097
Publication Date:   19 December 2013
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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"ANCIENT COMEDY AND RECEPTION: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JEFFREY HENDERSON Foreword S. Douglas Olson  Ancient Comedy and Receptions 1. Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes Zachary P. Biles, Franklin and Marshall College  2. Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania   3. Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes James Robson, Open University  4. Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, University of Göttingen  5. Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy? Oliver Taplin, Oxford University  6. Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di Aristofane Giuseppe Mastromarco, Università degli Studi di Bari  7. Dionysus' Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes' Paraenetic Pedigree Mark Alonge, Independent Scholar  8. Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes? J.R. Green, University of Sydney/Institute of Classical Studies, University of London   9. Plato's Aristophanes Charles Platter, University of Georgia  10. Menander's Samia and the Phaedra Theme Alan H. Sommerstein, University of Nottingham  11. Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus and Terence's Eunuchus) Michael Fontaine, Cornell University  12. Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus. Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes? Simone Beta, Università di Siena  13. Plautus und die Techniken des Improvisationstheaters Eckard Lefèvre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität  14. Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra's Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard (Plautus Merc. 817-29) Boris Dunsch, Philipps-Universität Marburg  15. ""Letting It All Hang Out"": Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman Satire Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary  16. Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical Problem Ian Ruffell, University of Glasgow  17. Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman Fiction Niall W. Slater, Emory University  18. From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient Novel Steven D. Smith, Hofstra University  19. Greek Culture as Images: Menander's Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek East Sebastiana Nervegna, University of Sydney  20. The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of Menander Niall W. Slater, Emory University    Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions 21. Medieval Vernacular Versions of Antique Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' Amphitryon Laura Kendrick, Université de Versailles  22. Aristofane mascherato. Un secolo (1415-1504) di fortuna e 'sfortuna' Ludovica Radif, Università di Genova    23. L'influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni Pontano Hélène Casanova-Robin, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)   24. Strepsiades' Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes' Clouds John Nassichuk, University of Western Ontario  25. The Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell'Arte Francesca Schironi, University of Michigan  26. Aristophanes in England, 1500-1660 Robert S. Miola, Loyola University in Maryland  27. Exaggerating Terence's Andria: Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy's The Perjur'd Devotee and Terentian Criticism Maik Goth, Ruhr-Universität Bochum  28. Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text Adele Scafuro, Brown University  29. Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition †Philip Ford, Clare College, Cambridge  30. Jacob Masen's Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater Gesine Manuwald, University College London  31. La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española Benjamín García-Hernández, Rosario López Gregoris y Carmen González-Vázquez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid  32. Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792) Robert Tordoff, York University  Modern Receptions 33. Polos und Polis: Aristophanes? Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks Bernhard Greiner, Universität Tübingen  34. Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19th Century Maria Luisa Chirico, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli  35. Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes' Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s Gonda Van Steen, University of Florida  36. Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas at Austin  37. She (Don't) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of Lysistrata Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University  38. ""Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!"": Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes Peter v. Möllendorff, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen      39. Lysistrata on Broadway Marina Kotzamani, University of the Peloponnese  40. ""Attend, O Muse, Our Holy Dances and Come to Rejoice in Our Songs"": The Reception of Aristophanes in the Modern Musical Theater Simone Beta, Università di Siena  41. Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s-1960s Amanda Wrigley, University of Westminster  42. Cultural Politics and Aesthetic Debate in Two Modern Versions of Aristophanes' Frogs Graham Ley, University of Exeter  43. Ionesco's New and Old Comedy David Konstan, New York University  44. Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, the Metamorphoses of Lysistrata Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University  45. Who's Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century Italy Martina Treu, IULM - Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Milan  46. Aristophanes in Israel: Comedy, Theatricality, Politics Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University   47. Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans Betine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham  48. The Maculate Muse in the 21st Century: Recent Adaptations of Aristophanes' Peace and Ecclesiazusae Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University  49. Eschyle et Euripide entre tragédie et comédie : polyphonie et interprétation dans quelques traductions récentes des Grenouilles d'Aristophane Ariane Eissen, Université de Poitiers Myrto Gondicas, freelance translator  50. Business as Usual: Plautus' Menaechmi in English Translation J. Michael Walton, University of Hull"

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