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Jesuit School Productions of Roman Comedy in the 19th-century U.S.

The Classical journal
:In this article I examine productions of Roman comedy in Latin at the end of the 19th century by several Jesuit schools in the United States. I show that they used these plays to demonstrate the high quality of Catholic education, to gain public support
C. B. Polt
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ON THE EARLIEST FEATURES OF THE GENRE OF COMEDY

Arts education and science
The system of classical theatre genres is very well studied, but still, it needs more research so that scholars were able to solve some theoretical problems, to reach certain clarity in the interpretation of its primary philosophical reasons and to ...
Dmitry V. Trubochkin
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Performing Ancient Drama in Mask: the Case of Greek New Comedy

New Theatre Quarterly, 2004
Chris 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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Ancient comedy and reception: essays in honor of Jeffrey Henderson, edited by S. Douglas

, 2014
Michael Ewans
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Eros with a Veneer: Translating Erotica in Ancient Comedy

, 2013
E. Skwara
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Who’s Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century Italy

, 2013
M. Treu
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Ancient Greek Comedy

2020
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The transgressive rhetoric of standup comedy in China

Critical Discourse Studies, 2023
Dan Chen
exaly  

Future Freedoms: Intergenerational Justice, Democratic Theory, and Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy

, 2017
Elizabeth Markovits
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On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology

International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice, 2022
Sharon Lockyer, Simon Weaver
exaly