Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy

Gregory W. Dobrov is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. His publications include Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy (Oxford, 1995), The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997), and Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics (Oxford, 2001).

• List of ContributorsI. Contexts1. Greek Comedy and Her Critics, Gregory W. Dobrov2. Comedy, Politics and Society, S. Douglas Olson3. Greek Comedy: The Material Evidence, Richard Green4. The Production and Performance of Greek Comedy in Antiquity, Eric Csapo5. Myth and Ritual in Greek Comedy, Angus BowieII. History6. Origins and Fifth-Century Comedy, Ian Storey7. Aristophanes, Ralph Rosen8. Middle Comedy, W. Geoffrey Arnott9. New Comedy, Stanley IrelandIII. Elements10. The History of the Text of Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein11. Comic Fragments: Transmission and Textual Criticism, H.-G. Nesselrath12. The Structure and Meter of Greek Comedy, B. Zimmermann13. The Language of Greek Comedy, Andreas WilliBibliographySubject Index

"En verdad logra este Companion su pretensión de proveer ayuda y estímulo para explorar el corpus cómico griego. Acoge todos los aspectos de la comedia griega, los performativos, los textuales (filológicos, ecdóticos, literarios, lingüísticos) y los socio- históricos. Aunque el griego no aparece transliterado, las traducciones al inglés permiten el acceso a quienes tengan escaso conocimiento de la lengua griega antigua. Es un libro insoslayable para el estudio de la comedia griega, el primero en su género y difícil será de superar." Claudia N. Fernández in Sehepunkte, Ausgabe 11 (2011), Nr. 3"[...] the contributors to this immensely learned companion will command the attention of both their professional colleagues and the advancing students of classical literature. The thirteen specialists, far from scripting a lengthy rehearsal of hackneyed arguments, have written perceptive and innovative (in certain cases even slightly controversial) introductions to their subjects, while at the same time offering arresting reassessments of important aspects of Greek Comedy. This heavy volume deserves every bit of shelf space it will occupy. Andreas Markantonatos in BMCR, 2011.11.45