Menander, New Comedy and the Visual

ISBN-13: 9781107645813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 334 str.

Antonis K. Petrides

Opis

This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Menander's New Comedy between reality and textuality; 2. New performance: visuality and intervisuality in Menander; 3. Of Greeks and others: mask, character and action in New Comedy; 4. Of mice and (young) men: the mask as inter-face; 5. A few good men: the panchrēstos mask and the politics of perfection.