The Ancient Comedians
An exploration of the strategies used by comedy's ancient innovators.
Author: Clem Martini
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 9781770912731
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 256
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The Comedians
The Comedian as Critic
This book attempts to answer these questions by examining comedy in its social and intellectual context, and by using approaches from modern literary theory to cast light on the ancient material.
Author: Matthew Wright
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780933460
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 256
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History of the Literature of Ancient Greece
This was the reason why comedy continued so long an obscure amusement of
noisy rustics , which no archon ... actor in the plays of Cratinus , to the rank of a
distinguished poet : a career common to him with several of the ancient
comedians .
Author: Karl Otfried Müller
Publisher:
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Category: Greek literature
Page: 530
View: 220
A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece
This was the reason why comedy continued so long an obscure amusement of
noisy rustics , which no archon ... actor in the plays of Cratinus , to the rank of a
distinguished poet : a career common to him with several of the ancient
comedians .
Author: Karl Otfried Müller
Publisher:
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Category: Greek literature
Page: 352
View: 473
The Ancient History of the Egyptians Carthaginians Assyrians Babylonians Medes and Persians Grecians and Macedonians
His face was smeared over with wine lees ; racier , and the genius of the ancient
comedy , which because no workman could be found , that would ven . was as
we see , a satire of the most poignant and severe ture to make a mask
resembling ...
Author: Charles Rollin
Publisher:
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Category: History, Ancient
Page:
View: 888
Cyclop dia of Universal History The ancient world
Visconti . Of all the Greek comedians of the old lies , its misdischool only one was
so fortunate as to have rected loves , its grotesque adventures - are subhis works
preserved to posterity - ARISTOPH stituted for the weightier vices of society .
Author: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher:
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Category: World history
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Barbarians in Greek Comedy
Long's major contention is that the Greek reaction to Oriental and other foreign influence can be seen in the treatment of barbarians in Greek comedy.
Author: Timothy Long
Publisher:
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Category: Performing Arts
Page: 222
View: 381
The Ancient World in the Cinema
ANCIENT COMEDY AND SATIRIZED ANCIENTS Perhaps we sometimes take
the ancient world too seriously. The clashing battles, complex politics, passionate
romances, profound theologies, and majestic locales were only one side of ...
Author: Jon Solomon
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083378
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 364
View: 720
Ancient Comedy and Reception
... This paper examines two recent adaptations that deploy distinctive, innovative
strategies for re-staging Aristophanic comedy. ... approaches to crafting politically
significant theater out of the raw material supplied by the ancient comedian.
Author: S. Douglas Olson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 161451125X
Category: History
Page: 1097
View: 620
Elegant Extracts from the Most Celebrated British Prose Writers
and on the Tattler , Spectator , and Guardian , display learning , research , a
cultivated taste , and an extensive acquaintance with old English literature .
COMEDY is sufficiently discriminated from Tragedy , by its general spirit and
strain .
Author: D. O'Sullivan
Publisher:
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Category:
Page: 778
View: 207
History of the Literature of Ancient Greece by K O M ller
This was the reason why comedy continued so long an obscure amusement of
noisy rustics , which no archon ... actor in the plays of Cratinus , to the rank of a
distinguished poet : a career common to him with several of the ancient
comedians .
Author:
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Page: 530
View: 253
The Ancient Classical Drama
From this Megarian Farce as a common starting - point Comedy spread to the
aristocratic west , and eastwards to the home of Democracy in Attica . The
aristocratic form was the first to reach maturity , and the second known species of
Comedy ...
Author: Richard Green Moulton
Publisher:
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Category: Classical drama
Page: 479
View: 735
A History of the Ancient World
It was just after the battle of Marathon that Comedy was revived at Athens by
Chionides (B.c. 488–7), but Cratinus, the first distinguished poet of the Old
Comedy, did not begin to exhibit till a generation later (B.C. 454); and ten years
later still, ...
Author: Philip Smith
Publisher:
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Category: History, Ancient
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Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century
The mimes originally made a part of the ancient comedy , and the mimic actors
played or exhibited grotesque dances between the acts of the comedy . As this
entertainment was highly relished , the mimes began to rest on their own merits ...
Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
Publisher:
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Category: World history
Page:
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History of Greek Literature
THE OLD COMEDY OF GREECE . Greek ALTHOUGH the name of Aristophanes
is one of the first , and by far the Origin of most illustrious , which we meet with in
the history of the ancient Comedy , Greek comedy , we must by no means ...
Author: Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
Publisher:
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Category: Greek literature
Page: 396
View: 522
Encyclop dia metropolitana or System of universal knowledge
THE OLD COMEDY OF GREECE . Greek ALTHOUGH the name of Aristophanes
is one of the first , and by far the Origin of most illustrious , which we meet with in
the history of the ancient Comedy . Greek comedy , we must by no means ...
Author: Encyclopaedia
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Category:
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View: 500
Soliloquy in Ancient Comedy
Even Shakespeare's simple sign - board would have relieved the ancient
comedian marvelously , still without requiring the niusance of scenery and scene
- shifting , or overtaxing the imagination of the audience more than Sophocles ...
Author: John Dean Bickford
Publisher:
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Category: Greek drama (Comedy)
Page: 65
View: 342
The Three Great Temptations of Young Men
Paucas reperiunt poetæ comedias , ubi boni meliores fiant . ' * Poets have
composed few comedies by which good men are made better . Such is the
concession of one who had before him the whole range of ancient comedy , and
was ...
Author: Samuel Ware Fisher
Publisher:
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Category: Young men
Page: 336
View: 361
Lippincott s Monthly Magazine
Bobadil , in Ben Jonson's “ Every Man in his Humor , ” is , after Falstaff , the best
known of the characters which our comedy owes to the ancient type . But he is
derived from Thraso rather than from Pyrgopolinices . With Thraso discretion is
the ...
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