Ancient Comedy and Reception : : Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson / / ed. by S. Douglas Olson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Alonge, Mark,; Beta, Simone,; Biles, Zachary P.,; Casanova-Robin, Hélène,; Chirico, Maria Luisa,; Dunsch, Boris,; Eissen, Ariane,; Fontaine, Michael,; Ford, Philip,; García-Hernández, Benjamín,; Gondicas, Myrto,; González-Vázquez, Carmen,; Goth, Maik,; Green, J.R.,; Gregoris, Rosario López,; Greiner, Bernhard,; Kendrick, Laura,; Konstan, David,; Kotzamani, Marina,; Lefèvre, Eckard,; Ley, Graham,; Manuwald, Gesine,; Mastromarco, Giuseppe,; Miola, Robert S.,; Moore, Timothy J.,; Möllendorff, Peter v.,; Nassichuk, John,; Nervegna, Sebastiana,; Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther,; Platter, Charles,; Radif, Ludovica,; Robson, James,; Rosen, Ralph M.,; Ruffell, Ian,; Scafuro, Adele,; Scharffenberger, Elizabeth,; Schironi, Francesca,; Sidwell, Keith,; Slater, Niall W.,; Smith, Steven D.,; Sommerstein, Alan H.,; Taplin, Oliver,; Tordoff, Robert,; Treu, Martina,; Van Steen, Gonda,; Walton, J. Michael,; Wetmore, Kevin J.,; Winkler, Martin M.,; Wrigley, Amanda,; Yaari, Nurit,; Zyl Smit, Betine van,
• HerausgeberIn: Olson, S. Douglas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1086 p.)

This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Foreword
• Contents
• Ancient Comedy and Receptions
• Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes
• Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression
• Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes
• Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus
• Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy?
• Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di Aristofane
• Dionysus’ Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes’ Paraenetic Pedigree
• Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes?
• Plato’s Aristophanes
• Menander’s Samia and the Phaedra Theme
• Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander’s Kolax in Three Roman Receptions
• Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus: Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes?
• Plautus und die Techniken des Improvisationstheaters
• Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra’s Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard
• “Letting It All Hang Out”: Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman Satire
• Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical Problem
• Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman Fiction
• From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient Novel
• Greek Culture as Images: Menander’s Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek East
• The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of Menander
• Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions
• Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus’ Amphitryon
• Aristofane mascherato: Un secolo (1415–1504) di fortuna e ‘sfortuna’
• L’influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni Pontano
• Strepsiades’ Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes’ Clouds
• The Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell’Arte
• Aristophanes in England, 1500–1660
• Exaggerating Terence’s Andria: Steele’s The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy’s The Perjur’d Devotee and Terentian Criticism
• Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text
• Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition
• Jacob Masen’s Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater
• La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española
• Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792)
• Modern Receptions
• Polos und Polis: Aristophanes’ Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks
• Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19th century
• Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes’ Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s
• Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine
• She (Don’t) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of Lysistrata
• „Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!“: Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes
• Lysistrata on Broadway
• “Attend, O Muse, Our Holy Dances and Come to Rejoice in Our Songs”: The Reception of Aristophanes in the Modern Musical Theater
• Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s–1960s
• Cultural Politics and Aesthetic Debate in Two Modern Versions of Aristophanes’ Frogs
• Ionesco’s New and Old Comedy
• Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, The Metamorphoses of Lysistrata
• Who’s Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century Italy
• Aristophanes in Israel: Comedy, Theatricality, Politics
• Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans
• The Maculate Muse in the 21st Century: Recent Adaptations of Aristophanes’ Peace and Ecclesiazusae
• Eschyle et Euripide entre tragédie et comédie: polyphonie et interprétation dans quelques traductions récentes des Grenouilles d’Aristophane
• Business as Usual: Plautus’ Menaechmi in English Translation
• Index of Names and Subjects