Menander, New Comedy and the Visual

This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Menander's New Comedy between reality and textuality; 2. New performance: visuality and intervisuality in Menander; 3. Of Greeks and others: mask, character and action in New Comedy; 4. Of mice and (young) men: the mask as inter-face; 5. A few good men: the panchr¿stos mask and the politics of perfection.

About the author

Antonis K. Petrides (M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus.

Summary

This book emphasises the role of verbal as well as visual allusion in positioning the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture and in instigating sophisticated processes of audience response. It will interest all classicists as well as scholars of theatre, performance and cultural studies in general.

Product details

• Authors: Antonis K. Petrides, Antonis K. (Open University of Cyprus) Petrides, Petrides Antonis K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781107645813
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64581-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, Literary studies: plays and playwrights