| Description |
115 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Bloom's major dramatists |
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Bloom's major dramatists.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Critical views on Greek comedy, The birds, The clouds, The frogs and Lysistrata. |
| Contents |
Biography of Aristophanes -- Introduction to old comedy -- Critical views on Greek comedy. Eleanor Dickey on Greek forms of address ; William E. Gruber on the comic hero ; George M. A. Grube on literary aspects ; Charles Platter on the carnivalesque ; Eugene M. Waith on English response to Aristophanes -- Plot summary of The birds -- List of characters in The birds -- Critical views on The birds. William Arrowsmith on the symbolism of birds ; Nan Dunbar on analogue of animal behavior ; Thomas Gelzer on the phantastic elements ; Stephen Halliwell on dual themes of politics and myth ; Gilbert Murray on the status of birds ; Erich Segal on The birds -- Plot summary of The clouds -- List of character in The clouds -- Critical views on The clouds. William Arrowsmith on literary aspects ; Kenneth James Dover on Strepsiades' name ; Rosemary M. Harriott on the strange ending ; Marie C. Marianetti on political satire ; Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan on the nature of justice ; Stella P. Revard on Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem ; Ian C. Storey on attitudes towards the sophists -- Plot summary of The frogs -- List of characters in The frogs -- Critical views on The frogs. Peter Arnott on the play as metacriticism ; David Barrett on some staging details ; Maurice Croiset on the importance of Aeschylus ; Joseph A. Dane on the literary function of Euripides ; Thomas K. Hubbard on The frogs in Greek literature ; Ismene Lada-Richards on the cult of Dionysus -- Plot summary of Lysistrata -- List of characters in Lysistrata -- Critical views on Lysistrata. A. M. Bowie on treatment of women ; Jeffrey Henderson on the prologue ; Hans-Joachim Newiger on the conditions in Athens ; Danny L. Smith on the tragic political background ; Alan H. Sommerstein on the turbulence in Athens ; Lauren K. Taaffe on feminine solidarity ; Cedric H. Whitman on Lysistrata's feminine nature. |
| Subject |
Aristophanes -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Greece -- In literature.
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Comedy.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0791063585 |
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9780791063583 |
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