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.

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

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Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Previously issued in print: 2016.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780190492090, 0190492090, 9780190492083, 0190492082
oclc:ocn967259998
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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