Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century

by Peter Swallow

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019286856X
• ISBN13: 9780192868565
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 8.9"