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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Martin Revermann (University of Toronto)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.840kg ISBN: 9780521747400ISBN 10: 0521747406 Pages: 518 Publication Date: 12 June 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Martin Revermann; Part I. Setting the Stage (in Athens and Beyond): 1. Defining the genre David Konstan; 2. The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander Zachary P. Biles; 3. Fourth-century comedy before Menander Keith Sidwell; 4. Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy Kathryn Bosher; 5. The iconography of comedy Eric Csapo; Part II. Comic Theatre: 6. Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy C. W. Marshall; 7. Character types Ian Ruffell; 8. The language(s) of comedy Andreas Willi; Part III. Central Themes: 9. Laughter Stephen Halliwell; 10. Utopianism Ian Ruffell; 11. The Greek 'comic hero' Ralph M. Rosen; 12. Social class David Kawalko Roselli; 13. Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy Helene Foley; 14. Divinity and religious practice Martin Revermann; Part IV. Politics, Law and Social History: 15. The politics of Greek comedy Alan Sommerstein; 16. Comedy and Athenian festival culture Edith Hall; 17. Comedy and Athenian law Victoria Wohl; 18. Comedy and the social historian Susan Lape and Alfonso Moreno; Part V. Reception: 19. Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions Richard Hunter; 20. Contexts of reception in antiquity Sebastiana Nervegna; 21. The reception of Greek comedy in Rome Michael Fontaine; 22. The transmission of comic texts Nigel Wilson; 23. Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander: from spontaneous reception to belated reception study Gonda Van Steen.Reviews'As with all the volumes in this series, there are notes on further reading to each chapter, an extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index. The volume is intended for students at all levels and in various disciplines, by no means only classicists, and for specialists and researchers in various fields. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of a field of study significant in many ways beyond the purely literary and theatrical.' Stuart James, Reference Reviews 'The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy achieves success by combining consistent excellence on the part of the contributors with a well-conceived and well-executed editorial plan.' Greece and Rome 'This Companion offers not just an introduction to comedy but a useful guide to the scholarship on comedy. ... This volume is considerably more ambitious and authoritative than many so-called Companions. It immediately establishes itself as the standard work on Greek comedy, and it will be widely read and consulted by students and scholars alike. ... It is one of the most interesting books on Greek drama to have appeared for many years, and it conveys a clearer sense of what komoidia was than any other introductory study of the genre.' Matthew Wright, Classical Review 'All in all, this is a superb companion: a comprehensive and rich collection that will serve as an invaluable resource for students and specialists alike. It is a work full of clever and challenging essays ...' E. P. Moloney, Phoenix 'As with all the volumes in this series, there are notes on further reading to each chapter, an extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index. The volume is intended for students at all levels and in various disciplines, by no means only classicists, and for specialists and researchers in various fields. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of a field of study significant in many ways beyond the purely literary and theatrical.' Stuart James, Reference Reviews '[This] is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of a field of study significant in many ways beyond the purely literary and theatrical.' Stuart James, Reference Reviews 'As with all the volumes in this series, there are notes on further reading to each chapter, an extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index. The volume is intended for students at all levels and in various disciplines, by no means only classicists, and for specialists and researchers in various fields. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of a field of study significant in many ways beyond the purely literary and theatrical.' Stuart James, Reference Reviews 'The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy achieves success by combining consistent excellence on the part of the contributors with a well-conceived and well-executed editorial plan.' Greece & Rome 'This Companion offers not just an introduction to comedy but a useful guide to the scholarship on comedy. ... This volume is considerably more ambitious and authoritative than many so-called Companions. It immediately establishes itself as the standard work on Greek comedy, and it will be widely read and consulted by students and scholars alike. ... It is one of the most interesting books on Greek drama to have appeared for many years, and it conveys a clearer sense of what komoidia was than any other introductory study of the genre.' Matthew Wright, Classical Review 'All in all, this is a superb companion: a comprehensive and rich collection that will serve as an invaluable resource for students and specialists alike. It is a work full of clever and challenging essays ...' E. P. Moloney, Phoenix Author InformationMartin Revermann is Professor of Classics and Theatre Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy (2006). He also co-edited Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin (with P. Wilson, 2008) and Beyond the Fifth Century: Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century BCE to the Middle Ages (with I. Gildenhard, 2010). In addition, he is the author of articles on Greek comedy and tragedy, Brecht, Homer, theatre-related vase paintings and theatre theory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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