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 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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Ancient Comedy and Reception
53 On the whole, however, the influence of Attic comedy on Petronius seems
indirect. Even the more aggressive, abusive humor of the Satyrica, which could
be said to have affinities with Old Comedy, could in fact be traced back to that
original ...
Author: S. Douglas Olson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 161451125X
Category: History
Page: 1097
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Eupolis Poet of Old Comedy
The last passage. from the scholia to Dionysios Thrax. is a variant of the
preceding. whereby only Kratinos is the exemplar of this Old and unrefined
comedy. and Eupolis follows Aristophanes into something newer and other than
the Old: S1d ...
Author: Ian Christopher Storey
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780199259922
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 441
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Truth and History in the Ancient World
Literary theorists have taken over such concerns with naming.29 Ancient
comedians and philosophers likewise focused on the consistency of properties
attached to names across worlds. In a famous passage of Antiphanes' Poiesis,
from ...
Author: Lisa Hau
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317558057
Category: History
Page: 288
View: 537
FRAGMENTS OF OLD COMEDY
Eupolis, and Aristophanes suited that view of Old Comedy very nicely. A more
representative triad could well have been Cratinus, Pherecrates, and
Aristophanes, one that would include the political comedy of Aristophanes as
well as his ...
Author: Ian C. Storey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674996623
Category: Drama
Page: 496
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Comedy of errors Much ado about nothing Love s labour s lost Midsummer night s dream
Sometimes yet more was left to the discretion of the ancient comedians , as I
learn from the following circumstance in X. Edward IV 2d p . 16193- “ Jockey is
led whipping over the fiage , speaking some words , but of no importance . ”
Again , in ...
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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The Virginia Comedians
Those particular scenes are much more agreeable to . attend than to describe ;
and perhaps all description would only blur the picture of those jubilecs , full of
wild revelry , as were all such in the ancient colony and Old Dominion indeed ,
are ...
Author: John Esten Cooke
Publisher:
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Category: Virginia
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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: 373
The Ancient History of the Egyptians
His face was smeared over with wine lees ; racter , 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: 449
Stories from the Greek Comedians
... Women in Parliament by the Rev. R. Smith . Mr. Lucas Collins's excellent
summaries in the " Ancient Classics for English Readers ” I have also found
useful . ALFRED J. CHURCH . CONTENTS . PART I. STORIES FROM THE OLD
COMEDY ...
Author: Alfred John Church
Publisher:
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Category: Greek drama (Comedy)
Page: 344
View: 357
The ancient world
Of all the Greek comedians of the old lies , its misdischool only one was so
fortunate as to have rected loves , its ... In richness characters of that New
Comedy , which , preof humor and quaintness of invention he vailing to the times
of ...
Author: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher:
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Category: World history
Page:
View: 601
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 ... In richness characters of that New
Comedy , which , preof humor and quaintness of invention he vailing to the times
of ...
Author: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher:
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Category: World history
Page:
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A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece
91 delighted the Athenians with his cheerful and multifarious fictions , To the
same age of comedy belongs ... an 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:
ISBN:
Category: Greek literature
Page:
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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: 968
The ancient history of the Egyptians Carthaginians c Transl 1 vol in 2
Hence comedy derives contempt , as from them he had nothing to fear ; itself ;
which is properly an image of private but I cannot help wondering at his having
life . Its design is to expose defects and vices brought the most illustrious and ...
Author: Charles Rollin
Publisher:
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A Digest of the Laws Customs Manners and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations
What was the influence of the comedians ? Judging from the nice sensibilities of
the moderns , and their extreme attention to the point of honor , we should
conclude that the old comedy must have been intolerable . We are at a loss to
know ...
Author: Thomas Roderick Dew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 662
View: 565
Comedy
37 Stand-Up Comedy Lawrence E. Mintz Stand-up is surely the oldest, the most
basic, and the universal form of comedy. Its roots are in the shaman, the fool, the
jester, and the clown. Stand-up comedy is a part of the ancient Greek theater, ...
Author: Maurice Charney
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313327155
Category: Comedy
Page: 663
View: 496
The Comedians
A History of the Ancient World
... Marathon that Comedy was revived at Athens by Chionides (B.c. 488–7), but
Cratinus, the first distinguished poet of the Old Comedy, ... Meanwhile the license
of the comedians reached such a pitch, that a decree was passed to prohibit their
...
Author: Philip Smith
Publisher:
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Category: History, Ancient
Page:
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