Tragedy on the Comic Stage

Tragedy on the Comic Stage
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780190492076
ISBN-13 : 0190492074
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Book Synopsis Tragedy on the Comic Stage by : Matthew C. Farmer

Download or read book Tragedy on the Comic Stage written by Matthew C. Farmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries.


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