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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 January 2011
      27 January 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511779169
      9780521764070
      9781107525948
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779169
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 302 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Theatre, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature.

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    '… this book is a thoroughly researched, imaginative and engaging piece of scholarship which deserves a prominent place in Aristophanic studies.'

    Emmanuela Bakola Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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