The Mask of Comedy : : Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis / / Thomas K. Hubbard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Hubbard, Thomas K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology ; 51
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

A choral interlude distinctive to Greek Old Comedy, the parabasis treats a variety of literary and political topics that critics have generally considered tangential to the themes of the play in which it appears. Reading closely each of Aristophanes' comedies, Thomas K. Hubbard here demonstrate...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• CHAPTER 1. Comedy and Self-Knowledge
• CHAPTER 2. The Intertextual Parabasis
• CHAPTER 3. The Mask of Dicaeopolis
• CHAPTER 4. Aristophanes and the Poetry of Hate
• CHAPTER 5. Misunderstood Intellectuals and Misunderstood Poets
• CHAPTER 6. A Quarrel with the Jury
• CHAPTER 7. The Flight of the Dung Beetle
• CHAPTER 8. From Birds to Frogs
• CHAPTER 9. Comic Autobiography and the Mask of Aristophanes
• APPENDIX 1. Aristophanes and Callistratus
• APPENDIX 2. Ben Jonson and the Clouds Parabasis
• APPENDIX 3. The Identity of the Chorus in the Peace
• APPENDIX 4. Political Allusions and the Chronology of the Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae
• APPENDIX 5. The Death of the Parabasis
• Bibliography
• General Index
• Index of Passages Discussed