The Origin of Attic Comedy

by: Cornford, F.M.

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 The Origin of Attic Comedy was originally published in 1934. Its author, Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943), was Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Beginning with Aristotle's observation that from the earliest stage Attic Comedy had 'certain definite forms', Cornford shows that these forms are clearly observable in the plays of Aristophanes and that they derived from a ritual drama common to both tragedy and comedy. Cornford was surprised by his own conclusions and his enquiries led him far from his original view that Aristophanic Comedy was composed of loosely connected and foreign sources. Combining a close examination of the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes and a broad treatment of the relationship between tragedy and comedy, this book will continue to merit review as a robust study of the origins of ancient Greek comedy

Introduction
Part I. The Background. 1. The dramatic fertility ritual
Part II. The Ritual pattern in aristocratic comedy. 2. The Agon
- 3. Sacrifice and feast
- 4. The exodus
- 5. The rle of the chorus
- 6. The phallic songs
- 7. The impostor
- 8. The stock masks
Part III. Comedy and tragedy. 9. Comedy and tragedy

Subjects:
Comédie grecque Histoire et critique Théorie, etc
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Entstehung
Geschichte Anfänge
Greece
Greek drama (Comedy) History and criticism Theory, etc
Griechisch
History
Komödie
Theater
Theater Greece
Theater History To 500
Théâtre Grèce
Théâtre Histoire Jusqu'à 500
To 500

Series:
Ann Arbor paperbacks

lii, 289 pages ; 21 cm.

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1961

The Origin of Attic Comedy

by: Cornford, F.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780472081950
• ISBN-03: 0472081950
• The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1993

Price: 35,00 EURO

1 copy in stock