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Talking about Laughter: And Other Studies in Greek Comedy

By Alan H. Sommerstein

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0199554196, 9780199554195, 9780191569685
LCC
PA3553 .S66 2009
Open Library ID
OL23621603M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1285168 bytes)
Pages
360\358
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.

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