Paracomedy

Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-22
Mått236 x 163 x 30 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190090937

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PrefaceNote to the ReaderIntroductionChapter 1: Understanding Paracomedy1.1 The Question of Methodology1.2 The Question of Motivation 1.3 The Question of DistributionChapter 2: Early Paracomedy2.1 Aeschylus' Oresteia and Old Comedy2.2 The Paracomic Heracles in Euripides' Alcestis2.3 The Paracomic Heracles in Euripides' Heracles2.4 ConclusionChapter 3: From Rags to Drag: Paracomic Costuming3.1 Dressing in Rags: Aristophanes' Acharnians and his Critique of Euripides3.2 Dressing in Rags: Euripides' Helen and the Re-appropriation of Acharnians3.3 Dressing in Drag: Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria and his Critique of Euripides3.4 Dressing in Drag: Euripides' Bacchae and the Re-appropriation of Women at the Thesmophoria3.5 ConclusionChapter 4: Paracomedy and the Structure of Euripides' Helen4.1 The Structure of Helen4.2 Phase 1: "Helen", A Play with a Tragic Character (1-385)4.3 Phase 2: "Menelaus", A Play with a Comic Character (386-527)4.4 Phase 3: "Helen" vs. "Menelaus", Tragedy vs. Comedy (527-1106)4.5 Phase 4: "Helen" Victorious (1107-1692)4.6 ConclusionChapter 5: Euripides' Orestes: A Paracomic Play5.1 The Parodos of Orestes and the Parodos of Peace5.2 Orestes and Women at the Thesmophoria's Parody of Helen5.3 Orestes and Women at the Thesmophoria's Parody of Palamedes5.4 Orestes and Women at the Thesmophoria's Parody of Andromeda5.5 Orestes and Women at the Thesmophoria's Parody of Telephus5.6 The Conclusion of Orestes and the Conclusion of Clouds5.7 ConclusionChapter 6: Paracomedy and Relative Chronology6.1 Paracomedy or Paratragedy?6.2 Euripides' Antiope and Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria6.3 ConclusionChapter 7: The Aftermath of Paracomedy7.1 Rhesus and the Imitation of Paracomedy7.2 Rhinthon's Hilarotragedies7.3 Pollux's Tragic ParabasesConclusionBibliographyIndex LocorumGeneral Index