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Explores comedy's voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions surrounding and shaping it.

Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. Using a methodologically innovative approach, Emmanuela Bakola studies the surviving fragments of Cratinus' plays and offers a thorough analysis of the multifaceted art of this poet and his place in the history of comedy. Issues which she addresses include the creation of a poetic personality within a performative tradition of fierce interpoetic rivalry; the play at the boundaries of the comic genre and the interaction with satyr drama and...

Innovative treatment of Greek comedy, showing that an essential characteristic at the heart of its identity is its voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions which surround and shape it. Explores comedy's interactions with numerous other genres within a unified interpretative framework.