Add to ORKGAbstract The prolific playwrights whose names are associated with comedy are Aristophanes, Johnson, Menander, Moliere etc. These are the men of innovative ideas who contributed a lot in the treasure of English literature. Comedy actually flourished at Athens by Aristophanes whois also considered as the ?Father? of comedy. His comedies areknown to the world as the Old Comedy. After its declination when the social order moved towards a new phase, the New Comedy came into existence. The name associated with the New Comedy was Menander. In the comedies of Menander, the element of fantastic lyric was vanished and extravagant characters like the birds, the frogs which were popular at the time of Aristophanes were abandoned and also imaginary char...
Traditionally in the field of aesthetics the genres of tragedy and comedy have been depicted in anti...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dramatic function of the Court Masque in the plays of W...
The concept of metatheatre, defined by N. Slater as « theatrically self-conscious theatre, i.e., the...
Introduction Well I will scourge those apes And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirrour As large as...
Intelligent English men of the theatre, resident in France during the years which saw Moliere's triu...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
This Independent Study examines the work of the Greek comic playwright Menander, who lived from abou...
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades t...
ENGLISHAs the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study...
The traditional theme of "the reversed social order" (in which the last become the first) , involvi...
Critical studies on the comic drama of the seventeenth-century French playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poqu...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
The plays of Aristophanes are the only examples of ancient Greek comedy that we have, but his comedi...
The plays of Aristophanes are the only examples of ancient Greek comedy that we have, but his comedi...
Traditionally in the field of aesthetics the genres of tragedy and comedy have been depicted in anti...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dramatic function of the Court Masque in the plays of W...
The concept of metatheatre, defined by N. Slater as « theatrically self-conscious theatre, i.e., the...
Introduction Well I will scourge those apes And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirrour As large as...
Intelligent English men of the theatre, resident in France during the years which saw Moliere's triu...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
This Independent Study examines the work of the Greek comic playwright Menander, who lived from abou...
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades t...
ENGLISHAs the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study...
The traditional theme of "the reversed social order" (in which the last become the first) , involvi...
Critical studies on the comic drama of the seventeenth-century French playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poqu...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
The plays of Aristophanes are the only examples of ancient Greek comedy that we have, but his comedi...
The plays of Aristophanes are the only examples of ancient Greek comedy that we have, but his comedi...
Traditionally in the field of aesthetics the genres of tragedy and comedy have been depicted in anti...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dramatic function of the Court Masque in the plays of W...
The concept of metatheatre, defined by N. Slater as « theatrically self-conscious theatre, i.e., the...