Menander and the Making of Comedy

List of contents

Foreword
Preface
A Comic Tradition: The Search for New Comedy
Menander in Time and Place
Theatre and Society
The Maker of Plays
Menander's People
Menander's Legacy
Appendix 1: A Summary of Plutarch's Comparison between Aristophanes and Menander
Speaking of the Play
Famous Lost Words
Menander at the Getty
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

J. MICHAEL WALTON is head of the Drama Department and Personal Professor at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. In addition to editing numerous works, he is author of Greek Theatre Practice (Greenwood, 1980), The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Reviewed, and Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production (Greenwood, 1987). His translations have been performed in Britain and the United States, and include Menander's The Woman from Samos, produced at the Getty Museum in Malibu in 1994.

PETER D. ARNOTT was Professor of Dramatic Arts at Tufts University at the time of his death in 1990. In addition to lecturing, he regularly toured with a one-man marionette theatre performing plays from the classical repertoire. Among his publications are An Introduction to the Greek World, An Introduction to the Greek Theatre, Greek Scenic Conventions in the Fifth Century B.C, The Ancient Greek and Roman Theater, The Theatre in Its Time and Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre. He also published translations from Greek, Latin, and French, many of which he directed in public productions.

Product details

• Authors: J. Michael Walton, Walton J. M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1996
• EAN: 9780313272165
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27216-5
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, The Arts: Drama