Описание: This new comparative reading of Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their contemporary social and political context and explores their impact on the audiences of the time. Both were composed during a crucial period of Athenian political life following the oligarchic seizure of power in 411 BC and the restoration of democracy in 410 BC, and were in all likelihood produced nearly simultaneously a few months before the rise of the Thirty Tyrants and the ensuing civil war. They also demonstrate significant similarities that are particularly notable among extant Attic theatre productions, including the role of the god Dionysos as protagonist and architect of religious and political action, and the presence of Demetrian and Dionysiac mystic choruses as proponents of the appeasement of civil discord as the cure for Athens’ ills. Focusing on the mystic, civic and political content of both Bacchae and Frogs, this volume offers not only a new reading of the plays, but also an interdisciplinary perspective on the special characteristics of mystery cults in Athens in their political context and the nature of theatrical audiences and their reaction to mystic themes. Its illumination of the function of each play at a pivotal moment in fifth-century Athenian politics will be of value to scholars and students of ancient Greek drama, religion and history.
Автор: Compton-Engle Название: Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes ISBN: 1107083796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107083790 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15205.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.
Автор: Storey, Ian C. (trent University, Canada) Название: Aristophanes: peace ISBN: 1350020222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350020221 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 11088.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play.
Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake.
Автор: Henderson, Jeffrey (boston University, United States Of America) Название: Three more plays by aristophanes ISBN: 0367747596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367747596 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes` Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations allow readers to explore the perils facing early democracy, still relevant today. Suitable for students of and those interested in classical studies, drama, and political science.
Автор: Henderson, Jeffrey (Boston University, USA) Название: Three More Plays by Aristophanes ISBN: 0367747626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367747626 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes` Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations allow readers to explore the perils facing early democracy, still relevant today. Suitable for students of and those interested in classical studies, drama, and political science.
Автор: Rob Tordoff Название: Aristophanes: Cavalry ISBN: 1350065676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350065673 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 11088.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens. These are subjects that resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before.Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry was the first play Aristophanes directed himself and it was awarded first prize. It targets the Athenian demagogue, Cleon, who had risen to prominence since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious victory over Sparta in 425 BCE. In Cavalry, Aristophanes attacks Cleon’s popularity with the masses, but also criticises the democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest and political shortsightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of escape from the crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more popular Cleon. And who better to be more foul-mouthed, depraved and shameless than a sausage-seller, if only because he turns out in the end to have a good heart and a true love of traditional Athenian values?
Автор: Anderson Carl Arne, Dix T. Keith Название: A Commentary on Aristophanes` Knights ISBN: 0472054457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472054459 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4158.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Presents a fresh look at the play that cemented Aristophanes` reputation as a rising star in comic theatre. This is a thoroughly modern commentary on a key play in the theatrical genre of Old Comedy, which satirized virtually every aspect of Athenian life in a period when Athens was at the height of its power and international prestige.
Автор: Vickers Michael Название: Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes` Early Plays ISBN: 029273493X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292734937 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3993.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes` eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades.
Автор: Aristophanes Название: Aristophanes: Frogs ISBN: 164792006X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781647920067 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 2786.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Aristophaness classic send-up of rivalry within the ultra-competitive world of fifth-century Athenian theatre wins a new lease on life in this fresh line-for-line translation by Peter Meineck. Premiered in 2021 by Aquila Theatre and accompanied here by Meinecks notes and wide-ranging Introduction, this Frogs offers the best view yet of a high-stakes afterlife contest between two of Athenss late great playwrights. Both are undisputed masters of tragedy. But only one can win and return to save the city.
Автор: S. Douglas Olson Название: Aristophanes` Clouds: A Commentary ISBN: 0472074776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472074778 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10395.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This is the first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover's 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate levels, the commentary pays careful attention to the basic characteristics of ancient Greek syntax, as well as to how Greek words are formed and can be analyzed. It offers robust staging notes, information about daily life in late 5th-century Athens, and constant reference to the rhetorical and dramatic strategies of the text. Full support is offered for those interested in the metrical structure of the songs, but in a way that allows instructors to leave such issues aside, should they choose to do so. The first and second appendixes offer a basic means of entry into the rich but complex world of the comic fragments. English-language bibliography is provided. The edition will interest professional classicists of all sorts seeking an accessible introduction to one of Aristophanes' greatest plays, to philosophers concerned with Socrates and the sophistic movement, and to theater professionals who wish to stage the play.
Автор: Marshall C. W., Marshall C. W., Slater Niall W. Название: Aristophanes: Frogs ISBN: 1350080926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350080928 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 21841.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history. Frogs offers sustained engagement with the Athenian literary scene, with the politics of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War, and with the religious understanding of the fifth-century city. It presents the earliest direct criticism of theatre and a detailed description of the Underworld, and also dramatizes the place of Mystery cults in the religious life of Athens and shows the political concerns that galvanized the citizens.
It is also genuinely funny, showcasing a range of comic techniques, including literary and musical parody, political invective, grotesque distortion, wordplay, prop comedy, and funny costumes. Frogs has inspired literary works by Henry Fielding, George Bernard Shaw, and Tom Stoppard.
This book explores all of these features in a series of short chapters designed to be accessible to a new reader of ancient comedy. It proceeds linearly through the play, addressing a range of issues, but paying particular attention to stagecraft and performance. It also offers a bold new interpretation of the play, suggesting that the action of Frogs was not the first time Euripides and Aeschylus had competed against each other.
Автор: Halliwell, Stephen (Wardlaw Professor of Greek Emeritus, Wardlaw Professor of Greek Emeritus, University of St Andrews) Название: Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace ISBN: 0198149956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198149958 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14421.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy.
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