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Brillâs Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes
Series: - Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 8
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Brillâs Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.
Philip Walsh received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 2008. He is an assistant professor of English and instructor of Latin and Greek at Washington College. His essay, âA Study in Reception: The British Debates over Aristophanesâ Politics and Influence,â appeared in the first issue of Classical Receptions Journal (Oxford, 2009).
Contributors are Gregory Baker, Cécile Dudouyt, John Given, Matthew J. Kinservik, Stavroula Kiritsi, David Konstan, Mike Lippman, C.W. Marshall, Alexandre G. Mitchell, Mark Payne, Charles Platter, James Robson, Ralph Rosen, Niall W. Slater, Gonda Van Steen, Philip Walsh, Rosie Wyles, and Donna Zuckerberg.
Contributors are Gregory Baker, Cécile Dudouyt, John Given, Matthew J. Kinservik, Stavroula Kiritsi, David Konstan, Mike Lippman, C.W. Marshall, Alexandre G. Mitchell, Mark Payne, Charles Platter, James Robson, Ralph Rosen, Niall W. Slater, Gonda Van Steen, Philip Walsh, Rosie Wyles, and Donna Zuckerberg.
"Consistently thoughtful and frequently quite useful, Philip Walshâs edited volume on the reception of Aristophanes, part of Brillâs Companions to Classical Reception series, is a model of the form. (...) this book should be a touchstone for future work on Aristophanes in the longue durée. (...)
This is a handsomely produced volume, enhanced by the colorful inclusion of nearly forty recent Lysistrata posters compiled by Mitchell, one of which also graces the cover. (...) Walshâs useful and engaging volume on the reception of Aristophanes is a testament to the maturity of the approach." A. C. Duncan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.35
This is a handsomely produced volume, enhanced by the colorful inclusion of nearly forty recent Lysistrata posters compiled by Mitchell, one of which also graces the cover. (...) Walshâs useful and engaging volume on the reception of Aristophanes is a testament to the maturity of the approach." A. C. Duncan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.35
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Philip Walsh
Notes on Contributors
PART 1 - Aristophanes, Ancient and Modern: Debates, Education, and Juxtapositions
1 Aristophanes in Antiquity: Reputation and Reception
Niall W. Slater
2 Modern Theory and Aristophanes
Charles Platter
3 Aristophanes, Gender, and Sexuality
James Robson
4 Aristophanes, Education, and Performance in Modern Greece
Stavroula Kiritsi
5 Teaching Aristophanes in the American College Classroom
John Given and Ralph M. Rosen
6 The âEnglish Aristophanesâ: Fielding, Foote, and Debates over Literary Satire
Matthew J. Kinservik
7 Teknomajikality and the Humanimal in Aristophanesâ Wasps
Mark Payne
8 Branding Irony: Comedy and Crafting the Public Persona
Donna Zuckerberg
PART 2 - Outreach: Adaptations, Translations, Scholarship, and Performances
9 Aristophanes in Early-Modern Fragments: Le Loyerâs La Néphélococugie (1579) and Racineâs Les Plaideurs (1668)
Cécile Dudouyt
10 Aristophanes and the French Translations of Anne Dacier
Rosie Wyles
11 The Verbal and the Visual: Aristophanesâ Nineteenth-Century English Translators
Philip Walsh
12 Comedy and Tragedy in Agon(y): The 1902 Comedy Panathenaia of Andreas Nikolaras
Gonda Van Steen
13 J.T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds of 1903 and 1924
C.W. Marshall
14 Murrayâs Aristophanes
Mike Lippman
15 âAttic Salt into an Undiluted Scotsâ: Aristophanes and the Modernism of Douglas Young
Gregory Baker
16 Classical Reception in Posters of Lysistrata: The Visual Debate Between Traditional and Feminist Imagery
Alexandre G. Mitchell
17 Afterword
David Konstan
General Bibliography
Index Nominum et Rerum
Preface and Acknowledgements
Philip Walsh
Notes on Contributors
PART 1 - Aristophanes, Ancient and Modern: Debates, Education, and Juxtapositions
1 Aristophanes in Antiquity: Reputation and Reception
Niall W. Slater
2 Modern Theory and Aristophanes
Charles Platter
3 Aristophanes, Gender, and Sexuality
James Robson
4 Aristophanes, Education, and Performance in Modern Greece
Stavroula Kiritsi
5 Teaching Aristophanes in the American College Classroom
John Given and Ralph M. Rosen
6 The âEnglish Aristophanesâ: Fielding, Foote, and Debates over Literary Satire
Matthew J. Kinservik
7 Teknomajikality and the Humanimal in Aristophanesâ Wasps
Mark Payne
8 Branding Irony: Comedy and Crafting the Public Persona
Donna Zuckerberg
PART 2 - Outreach: Adaptations, Translations, Scholarship, and Performances
9 Aristophanes in Early-Modern Fragments: Le Loyerâs La Néphélococugie (1579) and Racineâs Les Plaideurs (1668)
Cécile Dudouyt
10 Aristophanes and the French Translations of Anne Dacier
Rosie Wyles
11 The Verbal and the Visual: Aristophanesâ Nineteenth-Century English Translators
Philip Walsh
12 Comedy and Tragedy in Agon(y): The 1902 Comedy Panathenaia of Andreas Nikolaras
Gonda Van Steen
13 J.T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds of 1903 and 1924
C.W. Marshall
14 Murrayâs Aristophanes
Mike Lippman
15 âAttic Salt into an Undiluted Scotsâ: Aristophanes and the Modernism of Douglas Young
Gregory Baker
16 Classical Reception in Posters of Lysistrata: The Visual Debate Between Traditional and Feminist Imagery
Alexandre G. Mitchell
17 Afterword
David Konstan
General Bibliography
Index Nominum et Rerum
All interested in the reception of ancient drama (particularly Greek comedy), intellectual history, ancient and modern literary relations, translation studies, performance studies, and comparative literature.