The birth of comedy
Subtitle: texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280
By: edited by Jeffrey Rusten ; translated by Jeffrey Henderson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801894480
Subjects: Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Proto-comedy : literary and visual evidence for the precursors of comedy in 6th century Greece; title: Epicharmus of Sicily; title: Festivals, competitions, victory-lists; title: The first and second generations (except Cratinus); title: Cratinus; title: Eupolis; title: Aristophanes; title: Phrynichus and Platon; title: Other authors ca. 420-390 BCE; title: Theater, audience, actors, chorus, and costume of old and middle comedy : texts, statuettes, and paintings (also from outside Athens); title: Scenes from old or middle comedy on 4th-century southern Italian vases; title: Anaxandrides, Eubulus, Ephippus; title: Antiphanes; title: Timocles and nicostratus; title: Alexis; title: Other authors of middle comedy; title: The masks of new comedy in texts and images; actors of new comedy; acting techniques; other developments in staging; title: Philemon; title: Menander; title: Diphilus of Sinope; title: Other new comedy authors.