Aristophanic Comedy

Name: Aristophanic Comedy
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ISBN: 9780520022119

ISBN-10: 0520022114

ISBN-13: 9780520022119

Edition: 1972

Authors: Kenneth J. Dover

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Professor Dover's newest book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language.The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1972
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/1/1972
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English