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Aristophanes: Frogs
Taschenbuch von C. W. Marshall
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
C. W. Marshall
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures
Preface
Hopping: Some Ways to Read this Book

1. Dionysus
2. Lenaia
3. Aristophanes
4. Hero
5. Names
6. Costumes (Frogs 1-51)
7. Yearning (Frogs 52-107)
8. Underworlds (Frogs 108-66)
9. Warships (Frogs 167-208)
10. Croaking (Frogs 209-68)
11. Monsters (Frogs 269-322)
12. Eleusis (Frogs 323-459)
13. Disguise (Frogs 460-604)
14. Torture (Frogs 605-73)
15. Parabasis (Frogs 674-737)
16. Xanthias (Frogs 738-829)
17. Contest (Frogs 830-94)
18. Teachers (Frogs 895-1098)
19. Prologues (Frogs 1099-1247)
20. Songs (Frogs 1248-1364)
21. Scales (Frogs 1365-1410)
22. Alcibiades (Frogs 1411-66)
23. Aeschylus (Frogs 1467-1533)
[...]ipides: a Heresy
25. Reperformance
26. Afterlife
27. Translations
28. Twentieth-Century Frogs
29. Seriously

Readings
Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350080911
ISBN-10: 1350080918
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Marshall, C. W.
Redaktion: Marshall, C. W.
Slater, Niall W.
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 139 x 217 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: C. W. Marshall
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
preigu-id: 117879504
Über den Autor
C. W. Marshall
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures
Preface
Hopping: Some Ways to Read this Book

1. Dionysus
2. Lenaia
3. Aristophanes
4. Hero
5. Names
6. Costumes (Frogs 1-51)
7. Yearning (Frogs 52-107)
8. Underworlds (Frogs 108-66)
9. Warships (Frogs 167-208)
10. Croaking (Frogs 209-68)
11. Monsters (Frogs 269-322)
12. Eleusis (Frogs 323-459)
13. Disguise (Frogs 460-604)
14. Torture (Frogs 605-73)
15. Parabasis (Frogs 674-737)
16. Xanthias (Frogs 738-829)
17. Contest (Frogs 830-94)
18. Teachers (Frogs 895-1098)
19. Prologues (Frogs 1099-1247)
20. Songs (Frogs 1248-1364)
21. Scales (Frogs 1365-1410)
22. Alcibiades (Frogs 1411-66)
23. Aeschylus (Frogs 1467-1533)
[...]ipides: a Heresy
25. Reperformance
26. Afterlife
27. Translations
28. Twentieth-Century Frogs
29. Seriously

Readings
Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350080911
ISBN-10: 1350080918
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Marshall, C. W.
Redaktion: Marshall, C. W.
Slater, Niall W.
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 139 x 217 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: C. W. Marshall
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
preigu-id: 117879504
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