Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-256) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- Part One: The fragments of Greek comedy -- Electra and the coal pan: tragic culture in the comic fragments -- Give me a bit of paratragedy: tragic parody in the comic fragments -- Part Two: Aristophanes -- The man is obsessed with song: a contest of genres in Wasps -- Euripides in the echo chamber: poets and their poetry in women at the Thesmophoria -- Writing beyond genres: the Dionysiac festival in Gerytades and wealth -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries [BC]." -- Provided by publisher
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