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Ancient Comedy Reloaded: Aesthetics and Moral Reflection in Lessing’s Rewriting of Plautus

Monatshefte, 2019
Abstract 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.
G. Pinna
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Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy

2019
Abstract 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.
P. Destrée, Franco V. Trivigno
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Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy

2014
This 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.
Stephen E. Kidd
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Masters of Ancient Comedy

The Classical World, 1961
Charles T. Murphy, Lionel Casson
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Ancient Greek Comedy

2014
Antiguidade
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Ancient comedy: the war of the generations

Choice Reviews Online, 1994
D. Sutton
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What's so Funny about Ancient Comedy?

Social Identities, 2001
C. W. Marshall
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Soliloquy in Ancient Comedy. John Dean Bickford

Classical Philology, 1923
Blanche Brotherton
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Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus

2013
H. Nesselrath
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What's the Deal with Sophists? Critical Thought and Humor in Ancient Philosophy and Contemporary Comedy

The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook, 2023
While committed to the argumentative and reasoned discourse recognizable in the work of contemporary professional philosophers, the actual practice that both Socrates and Diogenes routinely engaged in was in many ways more similar to stand-up and other ...
J. Fogel
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