No Laughing Matter

Studies in Athenian Comedy

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• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781780930152
• eBook ISBN: 9781472503039
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Television

No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars while still remaining accessible to students. By including discussions of fragmentary authors alongside Aristophanes, the collection provides a broad understanding of the richness of Athenian comedy. The collection showcases the best of the new scholarship on Old and Middle Comedy, using the most up-to-date texts and tools. No Laughing Matter has been prepared in tribute to Professor Ian Storey of Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario), whose work on Athenian comedy will continue to shape scholarship for many years to come.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction: On Cratinus fr. 342 and Curmudgeons
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Pursuing Nemesis: Cratinus and Mythological Comedy
• 2. A World without Slaves: Crates’ Thêria
• 3. ‘Parade Abuse’, ‘From the Wagons’
• 4. Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Eupolis again: Metacomedy in Action
• 5. Clouds, Eupolis and Reperformance
• 6. Lysistrata’s Conspiracy and the Politics of 412 BC
• 7. Eleusis and the Public Status of Comedy in Aristophanes’ Frogs
• 8. Turning Remorse to Good Effect?: Arginusae, Theramenes and Aristophanes’ Frogs
• 9. Notes on Aristophanes’ Frogs
• 10. The Women’s Decree: Law and its Other in Ecclesiazusae
• 11. Carion Down the Piraeus: The Tragic Messenger Speech in Aristophanes’ Wealth
• 12. Axionicus, The Euripides Fan
• 13. Timocles fr. 6 K-A and the Parody of Greek Literary Theory
• 14. Cratinus, Menander and the Daphne Mosaic
• Index Locorum
• General Index