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Aristophanes: Frogs (Hardcover)
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Aristophanes: Frogs (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
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A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes'
Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies.
This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes
and contemporary contexts, and its reception history. Frogs offers
sustained engagement with the Athenian literary scene, with the
politics of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War, and with
the religious understanding of the fifth-century city. It presents
the earliest direct criticism of theatre and a detailed description
of the Underworld, and also dramatizes the place of Mystery cults
in the religious life of Athens and shows the political concerns
that galvanized the citizens. It is also genuinely funny,
showcasing a range of comic techniques, including literary and
musical parody, political invective, grotesque distortion,
wordplay, prop comedy, and funny costumes. Frogs has inspired
literary works by Henry Fielding, George Bernard Shaw, and Tom
Stoppard. This book explores all of these features in a series of
short chapters designed to be accessible to a new reader of ancient
comedy. It proceeds linearly through the play, addressing a range
of issues, but paying particular attention to stagecraft and
performance. It also offers a bold new interpretation of the play,
suggesting that the action of Frogs was not the first time
Euripides and Aeschylus had competed against each other.
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