Ancient Comedy and Reception

ISBN-13: 9781614511663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 1097 str.

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This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages. It concludes with a look at the modern era, taking into account literary translations and stage productions as well as modern media such as radio and film.

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ANCIENT COMEDY AND RECEPTION:
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JEFFREY HENDERSON

Foreword
S. Douglas Olson 

Ancient Comedy and Receptions

1. Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes
Zachary P. Biles, Franklin and Marshall College 

2. Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression
Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania  

3. Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes
James Robson, Open University 

4. Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, University of Göttingen 

5. Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy?
Oliver Taplin, Oxford University 

6. Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di Aristofane
Giuseppe Mastromarco, Università degli Studi di Bari 

7. Dionysus' Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes' Paraenetic Pedigree
Mark Alonge, Independent Scholar 

8. Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes?
J.R. Green, University of Sydney/Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
 
9. Plato's Aristophanes
Charles Platter, University of Georgia 

10. Menander's Samia and the Phaedra Theme
Alan H. Sommerstein, University of Nottingham 

11. Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus and Terence's Eunuchus)
Michael Fontaine, Cornell University 

12. Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus. Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes?
Simone Beta, Università di Siena 

13. Plautus und die Techniken des Improvisationstheaters
Eckard Lefèvre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität 

14. Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra's Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard
(Plautus Merc. 817-29)
Boris Dunsch, Philipps-Universität Marburg 

15. "Letting It All Hang Out": Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman Satire
Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary 

16. Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical Problem
Ian Ruffell, University of Glasgow 

17. Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman Fiction
Niall W. Slater, Emory University 

18. From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient Novel
Steven D. Smith, Hofstra University 

19. Greek Culture as Images: Menander's Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek East
Sebastiana Nervegna, University of Sydney 

20. The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of Menander
Niall W. Slater, Emory University 

 

Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions

21. Medieval Vernacular Versions of Antique Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' Amphitryon
Laura Kendrick, Université de Versailles 

22. Aristofane mascherato. Un secolo (1415-1504) di fortuna e 'sfortuna'
Ludovica Radif, Università di Genova 
 
23. L'influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni Pontano
Hélène Casanova-Robin, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)  

24. Strepsiades' Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes' Clouds
John Nassichuk, University of Western Ontario 

25. The Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell'Arte
Francesca Schironi, University of Michigan 

26. Aristophanes in England, 1500-1660
Robert S. Miola, Loyola University in Maryland 

27. Exaggerating Terence's Andria: Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy's The Perjur'd Devotee and Terentian Criticism
Maik Goth, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 

28. Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text
Adele Scafuro, Brown University 

29. Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition
Philip Ford, Clare College, Cambridge 

30. Jacob Masen's Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater
Gesine Manuwald, University College London 

31. La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española
Benjamín García-Hernández, Rosario López Gregoris y Carmen González-Vázquez,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 

32. Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792)
Robert Tordoff, York University 

Modern Receptions

33. Polos und Polis: Aristophanes? Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks
Bernhard Greiner, Universität Tübingen 

34. Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19th Century
Maria Luisa Chirico, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli 

35. Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes' Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s
Gonda Van Steen, University of Florida 

36. Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine
Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas at Austin 

37. She (Don't) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of Lysistrata
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University 

38. "Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!": Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes
Peter v. Möllendorff, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen     

39. Lysistrata on Broadway
Marina Kotzamani, University of the Peloponnese 

40. "Attend, O Muse, Our Holy Dances and Come to Rejoice in Our Songs": The Reception of Aristophanes in the Modern Musical Theater
Simone Beta, Università di Siena 

41. Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s-1960s
Amanda Wrigley, University of Westminster 

42. Cultural Politics and Aesthetic Debate in Two Modern Versions of Aristophanes' Frogs
Graham Ley, University of Exeter 

43. Ionesco's New and Old Comedy
David Konstan, New York University 

44. Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, the Metamorphoses of Lysistrata
Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University 

45. Who's Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century Italy
Martina Treu, IULM - Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Milan 

46. Aristophanes in Israel: Comedy, Theatricality, Politics
Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University  

47. Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans
Betine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham 

48. The Maculate Muse in the 21st Century: Recent Adaptations of Aristophanes' Peace and Ecclesiazusae
Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University 

49. Eschyle et Euripide entre tragédie et comédie : polyphonie et interprétation dans quelques traductions récentes des Grenouilles d'Aristophane
Ariane Eissen, Université de Poitiers
Myrto Gondicas, freelance translator 

50. Business as Usual: Plautus' Menaechmi in English Translation
J. Michael Walton, University of Hull

O autorze

S. Douglas Olson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA/University of Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany.