Introduction Well I will scourge those apes And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirrour As large as is the stage, whereon we act: Where they shall see the times deformitie Anatomiz'd in every nerve and sinnew, With constant courage and contempt offear. (Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, Induction, 117-122
In the parabasis of Clouds II, speaking about the treatment reserved to Cleon in the Knights, Aristo...
If we say that the writers of New Comedy (Menander and his older contemporaries Philemon and Diphilo...
In the parabasis of Clouds II, speaking about the treatment reserved to Cleon in the Knights, Aristo...
ENGLISHAs the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study...
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades t...
Undoubtedly the most well-known playwright in the English language, Shakespeare’s influence can be f...
Undoubtedly the most well-known playwright in the English language, Shakespeare’s influence can be f...
Abstract The prolific playwrights whose names are associated with comedy are Aristophanes, Johnson, ...
Mockery of tragedy is a striking and recurrent feature of the poetry of Aristophanes. Critics have s...
Mockery of tragedy is a striking and recurrent feature of the poetry of Aristophanes. Critics have s...
This thesis examines the form and function of insults, threats, and aggressive slapstick in the come...
Behind the practice of imitation in Renaissance literature lay the knowledge that the ancients thems...
Behind the practice of imitation in Renaissance literature lay the knowledge that the ancients thems...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
Aristophanes' Plutus is often regarded as a dull play. According to two of the leading specialists o...
In the parabasis of Clouds II, speaking about the treatment reserved to Cleon in the Knights, Aristo...
If we say that the writers of New Comedy (Menander and his older contemporaries Philemon and Diphilo...
In the parabasis of Clouds II, speaking about the treatment reserved to Cleon in the Knights, Aristo...
ENGLISHAs the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study...
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades t...
Undoubtedly the most well-known playwright in the English language, Shakespeare’s influence can be f...
Undoubtedly the most well-known playwright in the English language, Shakespeare’s influence can be f...
Abstract The prolific playwrights whose names are associated with comedy are Aristophanes, Johnson, ...
Mockery of tragedy is a striking and recurrent feature of the poetry of Aristophanes. Critics have s...
Mockery of tragedy is a striking and recurrent feature of the poetry of Aristophanes. Critics have s...
This thesis examines the form and function of insults, threats, and aggressive slapstick in the come...
Behind the practice of imitation in Renaissance literature lay the knowledge that the ancients thems...
Behind the practice of imitation in Renaissance literature lay the knowledge that the ancients thems...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
Aristophanes' Plutus is often regarded as a dull play. According to two of the leading specialists o...
In the parabasis of Clouds II, speaking about the treatment reserved to Cleon in the Knights, Aristo...
If we say that the writers of New Comedy (Menander and his older contemporaries Philemon and Diphilo...
In the parabasis of Clouds II, speaking about the treatment reserved to Cleon in the Knights, Aristo...