The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

Book Overview

Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example audience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521747406
• ISBN13: 9780521747400
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"