Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon
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The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Tel explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Tel boldly traces...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022630969X
ISBN13:9780226309699
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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