Brill's companion to the reception of Aristophanes / edited by Philip Walsh.

"Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries. Contributors are Gregory Baker, Cécile Dudouyt, John Given, Matthew J. Kinservik, Stavroula Kiritsi, David Konstan, Mike Lippman, C.W. Marshall, Alexandre G. Mitchell, Mark Payne, Charles Platter, James Robson, Ralph Rosen, Niall W. Slater, Gonda Van Steen, Philip Walsh, Rosie Wyles, and Donna Zuckerberg."-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-426) and index.

Preface and acknowledgements / Philip Walsh -- Notes on contributors -- Part 1. Aristophanes, ancient and modern: debates, education, and juxtapositions. Aristophanes in antiquity: reputation and reception / Niall W. Slater -- Modern theory and Aristophanes / Charles Platter -- Aristophanes, gender, and sexuality / James Robson -- Aristophanes, education, and performance in modern Greece / Stavroula Kiritsi -- Teaching Aristophanes in the American college classroom / John Given and Ralph M. Rosen -- The "English Aristophanes": Fielding, Foote, and debates over literary satire / Matthew J. Kinservik -- Teknomajikality and the humanimal in Aristophanes' Wasps / Mark Payne -- Branding irony: comedy and crafting the public persona / Donna Zuckerberg. Part 2. Outreach: adaptations, translations, scholarship, and performances. Aristophanes in early-modern fragments: Le Loyer's La néphélococugie (1579) and Racine's Les plaideurs (1668) / Cécile Dudouyt -- Aristophanes and the French translations of Anne Dacier / Rosie Wyles -- The verbal and the visual: Aristophanes' nineteenth-century English translators / Philip Walsh -- Comedy and tragedy in agon(y): the 1902 comedy panathenaia of Andreas Nikolaras / Gonda Van Steen -- J.T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds of 1903 and 1924 / C.W. Marshall -- Murray's Aristophanes / Mike Lippman -- "Attic salt into an undiluted Scots": Aristophanes and the modernism of Douglas Young / Gregory Baker -- Classical reception in posters of Lysistrata: the visual debate between traditional and feminist imagery / Alexandre G. Mitchell -- Afterword / David Konstan.

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