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. M. Walton

Product details

• Authors: J. Michael Walton, Walton J. M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• 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