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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.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Preface Hopping: Some Ways to Read this Book 1. Dionysus 2. Lenaia 3. Aristophanes 4. Hero 5. Names 6. Costumes (Frogs 1-51) 7. Yearning (Frogs 52-107) 8. Underworlds (Frogs 108-66) 9. Warships (Frogs 167-208) 10. Croaking (Frogs 209-68) 11. Monsters (Frogs 269-322) 12. Eleusis (Frogs 323-459) 13. Disguise (Frogs 460-604) 14. Torture (Frogs 605-73) 15. Parabasis (Frogs 674-737) 16. Xanthias (Frogs 738-829) 17. Contest (Frogs 830-94) 18. Teachers (Frogs 895-1098) 19. Prologues (Frogs 1099-1247) 20. Songs (Frogs 1248-1364) 21. Scales (Frogs 1365-1410) 22. Alcibiades (Frogs 1411-66) 23. Aeschylus (Frogs 1467-1533) 24. Euripides: a Heresy 25. Reperformance 26. Afterlife 27. Translations 28. Twentieth-Century Frogs 29. Seriously Readings Bibliography

About the Author :
C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Review :
This volume is a perfect companion to Frogs: essential and joyful for anyone reading, teaching or performing Aristophanes, or really any ancient Greek play.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350080942
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
  • ISBN-10: 1350080942
  • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 176


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