Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies Tapa blanda - 2014
de Aristophanes
Información de la editorial
Aristophanes
The Eleven Comedies
Volume 1
With Text and Notes
STUDENT STUDY EDITION
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME
Translator's Foreword
Authorities
THE KNIGHTS - Introduction, Text and Notes
THE ACHARNIANS - Introduction, Text and Notes
PEACE - Introduction, Text and Notes
LYSISTRATA - Introduction, Text and Notes
THE CLOUDS - Introduction, Text and Notes
Literally and Completely Translated from the Greek
With Translator's Foreword An Introduction To Each Comedy And Elucidatory
The First of Two Volumes
The eleven plays, all that have come down to us out of a total of over forty staged by our author in the course of his long career, deal with the events of the day, the incidents and personages of contemporary Athenian city life, playing freely over the surface of things familiar to the audience and naturally provoking their interest and rousing their prejudices, dealing with contemporary local gossip, contemporary art and literature, and above all contemporary politics, domestic and foreign. All this farrago of miscellaneous subjects is treated in a frank, uncompromising spirit of criticism and satire, a spirit of broad fun, side-splitting laughter and reckless high spirits. Whatever lends itself to ridicule is instantly seized upon; odd, eccentric and degraded personalities are caricatured, social foibles and vices pilloried, pomposity and sententiousness in the verses of the poets, particularly the tragedians, and most particularly in Euripides--the pet aversion and constant butt of Aristophanes' satire--are parodied. All is fish that comes to the Comic dramatists net, anything that will raise a laugh is fair game.
"It is difficult to compare the Aristophanic Comedy to any one form of modern literature, dramatic or other. It perhaps most resembles what we now call burlesque; but it had also very much in it of broad farce and comic opera, and something also (in the hits at the fashions and follies of the day with which it abounded) of the modern pantomime. But it was something more, and more important to the Athenian public than any or all of these could have been. Almost always more or less political, and sometimes intensely personal, and always with some purpose more or less important underlying its wildest vagaries and coarsest buffooneries, it supplied the place of the political journal, the literary review, the popular caricature and the party pamphlet, of our own times. It combined the attractions and influence of all these; for its grotesque masks and elaborate 'spectacle' addressed the eye as strongly as the author's keenest witticisms did the ear of his audience."
Detalles
- Título Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies
- Autor Aristophanes
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 290
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Fecha de publicación 2014-11
- ISBN 9781503378339 / 1503378330
- Peso 1.28 libras (0.58 kg)
- Dimensiones 10 x 8 x 0.61 pulgadas (25.40 x 20.32 x 1.55 cm)
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