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" New perspectives on postclassical comedy / "
edited by Antonis K. Petrides and Sophia Papaioannou.
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BL
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892767
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New perspectives on postclassical comedy /\ edited by Antonis K. Petrides and Sophia Papaioannou.
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Newcastle upon Tyne :: Cambridge Scholars,, 2010.
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Pierides ;; v. 2
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xii, 216 pages ;; 22 cm.
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1443824119
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: 9781443824118
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-205) and indexes.
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| Contents
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New comedy under new light / Antonis K. Petrides and Sophia Papaioannou -- Menander : the text and its restoration / Horst-Dieter Blume -- Menander and cultural studies / David Konstan -- Gender in Menander's comedy / Susan Lape -- New performance / Antonis K. Petrides -- Performing traditions : relations and relationships in Menander and tragedy / Rosanna Omitowoju -- Postclassical comedy and the composition of Roman comedy / Sophia Papaioannou.
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"The re-emergence of Menander from the landfills of Egypt in the late-19th century and the subsequent discovery of the Bodmer Codex in the 1950s caused a sensation among scholars. After a period in which the primary editing and reconstruction of the substantially preserved plays and fragments was the main line of criticism, scholars were finally in a position to take a deep breath and look at Menander and New Comedy, both Greek and Roman, in wider contexts of interpretation and with fresh perspectives drawn from innovative work both in Classical and more modern studies. This book aims to showcase these new approaches to postclassical comedy. The individual contributions, six in total, approach New Comedy as theatrical performance, but also as a dynamic player in the socio-political discourses of the polis culture that gave birth to it. The chapters highlight continuities as well as discontinuities with the cultural and literary past of Athens and the Greek world, but mostly emphasise the progressiveness of New Comedy as a genre and it importance for the nascent culture of Hellenism and Rome thereafter"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket.
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Menander,Criticism and interpretation.
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Menander,Criticism and interpretation.
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Menander
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Menander
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Menander.
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Greek drama (Comedy)-- History and criticism.
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Greek drama (Comedy)
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Griechisch.
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Komödie-- griechische-- Hellenismus.
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Komödie.
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882.0109
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PA3161.N49 2010
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Papaioannou, Sophia.
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Petrides, Antonis K.
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