Tragedy on the comic stage

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"Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries [BC]."--

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Full title :Tragedy on the comic stage / Matthew C. Farmer.

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Publication Date:2017

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

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Description:x, 267 pages ; : 25 cm

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ISBN:9780190492076, 0190492074, 9780190492090, 0190492090
oclc:ocn946076281
LC Classification:PA3201
Dewey Decimal:882/.0109

Acknowledgments -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- Part One: The fragments of Greek comedy -- Electra and the coal pan: tragic culture in the comic fragments -- Give me a bit of paratragedy: tragic parody in the comic fragments -- Part Two: Aristophanes -- The man is obsessed with song: a contest of genres in Wasps -- Euripides in the echo chamber: poets and their poetry in Women at the Thesmophoria -- Writing beyond genres: the Dionysiac festival in Gerytades and Wealth -- Conclusion.

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