Talking about Laughter

Talking about Laughter
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9780191569685
ISBN-13 : 0191569682
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Book Synopsis Talking about Laughter by : Alan H. Sommerstein

Download or read book Talking about Laughter written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.


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