Paracomedy : appropriations of comedy in Greek tragedy / Craig Jendza.
2020
PA3131 .J397 2020
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Title
Paracomedy : appropriations of comedy in Greek tragedy / Craig Jendza.
Author
Jendza, Craig, author.
ISBN
9780190090968 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (312 pages).
Call Number
PA3131 .J397 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
882.0109
Summary
While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays.
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While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 23, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190090937
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