Author: AristophanesPublisher:
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Languages : el
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Frogs. The Ecclesiazusae
Author: AristophanesThe Comedies of Aristophanes: The frogs. The ecclesiazusae
Author: AristophanesThe Frogs of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesThe comedies of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesThe Comedies of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesComedies: The frogs. The Ecclesiazusae
Author: AristophanesAristophanous Kōmōidiai -: IX. The frogs. X. The Ecclesiazusae
Author: AristophanesThe wasps. The birds. The frogs. The Thesmophoriazusae. The Ecclesiazusae
Author: AristophanesThe Frogs
Author: AristophanesThe wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae
Author: Aristophanes AristophanesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 374943137X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"It is difficult to compare the Aristophanic Comedy to any one form of modern literature, dramatic or other. It perhaps most resembles what we now call burlesque; but it had also very much in it of broad farce and comic opera, and something also (in the hits at the fashions and follies of the day with which it abounded) of the modern pantomime. But it was something more, and more important to the Athenian public than any or all of these could have been. Almost always more or less political, and sometimes intensely personal, and always with some purpose more or less important underlying its wildest vagaries and coarsest buffooneries, it supplied the place of the political journal, the literary review, the popular caricature and the party pamphlet, of our own times. It combined the attractions and influence of all these; for its grotesque masks and elaborate 'spectacle' addressed the eye as strongly as the author's keenest witticisms did the ear of his audience."