Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-27068-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Band 8, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 775 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Walsh, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Philip Walsh
Notes on Contributors

PART 1 - Aristophanes, Ancient and Modern: Debates, Education, and Juxtapositions
1 Aristophanes in Antiquity: Reputation and Reception
Niall W. Slater
2 Modern Theory and Aristophanes
Charles Platter
3 Aristophanes, Gender, and Sexuality
James Robson
4 Aristophanes, Education, and Performance in Modern Greece
Stavroula Kiritsi
5 Teaching Aristophanes in the American College Classroom
John Given and Ralph M. Rosen
6 The “English Aristophanes”: Fielding, Foote, and Debates over Literary Satire
Matthew J. Kinservik
7 Teknomajikality and the Humanimal in Aristophanes’ Wasps
Mark Payne
8 Branding Irony: Comedy and Crafting the Public Persona
Donna Zuckerberg

PART 2 - Outreach: Adaptations, Translations, Scholarship, and Performances
9 Aristophanes in Early-Modern Fragments: Le Loyer’s La Néphélococugie (1579) and Racine’s Les Plaideurs (1668)
Cécile Dudouyt
10 Aristophanes and the French Translations of Anne Dacier
Rosie Wyles
11 The Verbal and the Visual: Aristophanes’ Nineteenth-Century English Translators
Philip Walsh
12 Comedy and Tragedy in Agon(y): The 1902 Comedy Panathenaia of Andreas Nikolaras
Gonda Van Steen
13 J.T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds of 1903 and 1924
C.W. Marshall
14 Murray’s Aristophanes
Mike Lippman
15 “Attic Salt into an Undiluted Scots”: Aristophanes and the Modernism of Douglas Young
Gregory Baker
16 Classical Reception in Posters of Lysistrata: The Visual Debate Between Traditional and Feminist Imagery
Alexandre G. Mitchell
17 Afterword
David Konstan

General Bibliography
Index Nominum et Rerum

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Walsh received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 2008. He is an assistant professor of English and instructor of Latin and Greek at Washington College. His essay, “A Study in Reception: The British Debates over Aristophanes’ Politics and Influence,” appeared in the first issue of Classical Receptions Journal (Oxford, 2009).

Contributors are Gregory Baker, Cécile Dudouyt, John Given, Matthew J. Kinservik, Stavroula Kiritsi, David Konstan, Mike Lippman, C.W. Marshall, Alexandre G. Mitchell, Mark Payne, Charles Platter, James Robson, Ralph Rosen, Niall W. Slater, Gonda Van Steen, Philip Walsh, Rosie Wyles, and Donna Zuckerberg.