Title: Aristophanes and the cloak of comedy
Description: The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals?
Subjects: History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Greek drama (Comedy), Greek drama, history and criticism
People: Aristophanes