Aristophanes and the Definition of ComedyIn this book Professor Silk presents a radically new critical study of Aristophanes. Through an exploration of Aristophanes' comic poetry, informed by a wide range of theory from Kierkegaard to Adorno, a particular consideration of Aristophanes' own understanding of his medium, and challenging comparisons with modern literature, this book adds a new chapter to the long-standing debate about the nature and potentialities of comedy. |
Contents
Three Openings | 24 |
Comedy and Tragedy | 42 |
Language and Style | 98 |
The Lesson of the Lyric Poetry | 160 |
Character and Characterization | 207 |
Causal Sequences and Other Patterns | 256 |
Serious Issues and Serious Comedy | 301 |
Mode Meaning and Assessment | 350 |
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Common terms and phrases
Acharnians Aeschylus anapaests Aristo Aristophanic comedy Aristotelian Aristotle associated Athenian Athens Attic audience Birds character characteristic chorus Cleon Clouds comic drama comic poet context contrast Cratinus dance Demos Dicaeopolis Dionysia Dionysus discontinuous discussion Dover emotion Euripides Frogs genre Greek tragedy Henderson Homer humour ibid idiom implies instance involves joke kind Knights Lamachus language Lenaea literary literature LSJ s.v. lyric Lysistrata MacDowell Menander Mnesilochus modern obscenity Old Comedy opposition Paphlagon parabasis paratragedy particular passage pathos pattern peace phanes Philocleon play Plutus Poetics poetry political realist recreative relationship satire seems sense sequence serious Silk slave Socrates Sommerstein song Soph Sophocles specific Strepsiades style stylistic Thesmophoriazusae tradition tragic Vesp Wasps whole women words ἀλλ γὰρ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐν καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς