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2013
This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages.
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This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages.
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Who "Invented" Comedy? The Ancient Candidates for the Origins of Comedy and the Visual Evidence
American Journal of Philology, 2006The formal beginning of comedy is firmly dated to the Dionysia of 486 B.C.E.1 For what preceded it there were at least three ancient candidates: phallic processions, Doric comedy and Susarion. Each is supported by visual evidence of the sixth century B.C.E., each explains certain features of Old Comedy, but all have some anomalies as well. Striking is
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Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy
2019Abstract Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor, and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treatises on comedic composition.
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HUMOR, 2014
AbstractFew theoretical statements about comic drama and fiction can match the influence of Northrop Frye's essay, “Mythos of Spring: Comedy.” Particularly for scholars interested not only in classic comic literary forms such as stage comedy, but also in the popular forms of contemporary films as well as television sitcoms, Frye's theory continues to ...
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AbstractFew theoretical statements about comic drama and fiction can match the influence of Northrop Frye's essay, “Mythos of Spring: Comedy.” Particularly for scholars interested not only in classic comic literary forms such as stage comedy, but also in the popular forms of contemporary films as well as television sitcoms, Frye's theory continues to ...
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Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy
2014This book examines the concept of 'nonsense' in ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If 'nonsense' (phluaria, lēros) is a type of language felt to be unworthy of interpretation, it can help to define certain aspects of comedy that have proved difficult to grasp.
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[Technical medicine in ancient comedy].
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1995The texts of Greek comedy offer a panoramic vision of the evolution of medicine between the fifth and the third centuries. They provide an excellent way to understand the prejudices and the bases of technical medicine and its relationship with popular medicine. Comedy also shows us a vivid portrait of the physician and his position in Greek society.
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Performing Ancient Drama in Mask: the Case of Greek New Comedy
New Theatre Quarterly, 2004Chris Vervain is a mask maker who has for a number of years trained and directed in performing masked drama. On the basis of research she has undertaken, using her own masks, on how to perform the ancient Greek plays, in this article she questions some of the modern orthodoxies of masked theatre, drawing specifically on her experience with Menander's ...
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Embodying the Mask: Exploring Ancient Roman Comedy Through Masks and Movement
Classical Journal, 2015Students and teachers of Roman comedy tend to be inexperienced in the mask work and body movement that would have formed an integral part of ancient performance. Masks and movement can help define character and status in a way that can be complementary to (or even subversive of) the written text as we have it.
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Ancient Comedy Reloaded: Aesthetics and Moral Reflection in Lessing’s Rewriting of Plautus
Monatshefte, 2019Abstract The reception of Plautus plays an important role in the development of Lessing’s theory and practice of comic writing. However, research on this has been done so far mainly from the vantage point of Plautus’ Nachleben while its effects on Lessing’s own work and ideas have been underresearched.
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