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<P>Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example audience response, festival context, interface with ritual or political frames). In addition, it also discusses relevant historical issues (political, socio-economic and legal) as well as the artistic and archaeological evidence. The result provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature which will be of help to students at all levels and from a variety of disciplines but will also provide stimulus for further research.</P>

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

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Front Cover.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Illustrations.
Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Setting the Stage (in Athens and Beyond).
1: Defining the Genre.
2: The Rivals of Aristophanes and Menander.
3: Fourth-Century Comedy Before Menander.
4: Epicharmus and Early Sicilian Comedy.
5: The Iconography of Comedy.
Comic Theatre.
6: Dramatic Technique and Athenian Comedy.
7: Character Types.
8: The Language(s) of Comedy.
Central Themes.
9: Laughter.
10: Utopianism.
11: The Greek &#x2018;Comic Hero&#x2019;.
12: Social Class.
13: Performing Gender in Greek Old and New Comedy.
14: Divinity and Religious Practice.
Politics, Law and Social History.
15: The Politics of Greek Comedy.
16: Comedy and Athenian Festival Culture.
17: Comedy and Athenian Law.
18: Comedy and the Social Historian.
Reception.
19: Attic Comedy in the Rhetorical and Moralising Traditions.
20: Contexts of Reception in Antiquity.
21: The Reception of Greek Comedy in Rome.
22: The Transmission of Comic Texts.
23: Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander from Spontaneous Reception to Belated Reception Study.
Bibliography.
Index.
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