Comedy modern scholarship
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- Comedy modern scholarship
- Comedy
- Dover
- the ordinary man enjoyed the sexuality of comedy as a channel for his own ‘excess’ sexuality
- Of all the men whom we know from historical sources to have achieved political prominence at Athens during (this period), there is not one who is not attacked and ridiculed
- MacDowell
- this does not necessarily mean that he and the audience do not believe in their real existence
- Dover
- Frogs
- Bettendorf
- The primary function of the play, however, is not literary criticism but political action
- Bettendorf
- props
- Cartledge
- The wearing of the erect phallos by at least some of the actors in Greek drama corresponded to the exaggeratedly male-dominated quality of male dominance
- Dover
- Frogs is unique among extant plays in providing us with the spectacle of a moving vehicle, Charon’s boat
- saffron on Dionysus look rather effeminate they make a ridiculous contrast with the exceedingly virile lion-skin and club
- Cartledge
- chorus
- Cartledge
- the chorus comes forward... to offer what sounds like serious advice
- Macdowell
- much of the comic effect must be visual
- Allison
- unseen, only heard singing from somewhere offstage
- Rogers
- totally unconnected with general plot
- Cartledge
- purpose
- Cartledge
- it does seem pretty clear that the contribution of Aristophanes to comedy was overwhelming and unique, that it was he above all who shaped the genre of Old Comedy
- Konstan
- “The important feature of comedy is that the main character is “reconciled with society at the end” of the play
- Dover
- Aeschylus was the poet of the generation which fought off the Persians and created the Athenian empire, Euripides the poet of their own more precarious days
- Redfield
- The victory of Aeschylus is a rejection of the new life-style, a return to the old moral centre
- Cartledge
- Comedy
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