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Aristophanes in performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: peace, birds, and frogs

Hall, E. and Wrigley, A., eds. (2007) Aristophanes in performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: peace, birds, and frogs. Legenda, Oxford. ISBN 9781904350613

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Abstract/Summary

Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.

Item Type:Book
Refereed:Yes
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ID Code:71655
Publisher:Legenda

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