This lively and wide-ranging study explores the reception of Aristophanes in the long-nineteenth century. It examines both political and aesthetic strands of this reception, and argues that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues--making Old Comedy new.
This lively and wide-ranging study explores the reception of Aristophanes in the long-nineteenth century. It examines both political and aesthetic strands of this reception, and argues that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues--making Old Comedy new.
Peter Swallow is a Research Fellow at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, working on the popular reception of Aristotle. Previously, he held a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, and taught at both KCL and Goldsmiths. He edited Aristophanic Humour with Edith Hall (2020). Peter has also taught at Notting Hill and Ealing High School, and since 2017 has worked with the Advocating Classics Education project to expand access to classical education in schools.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Illustrations * 1: Introduction * 2: Out of Exile: Thomas Mitchell and John Hookham Frere * 3: Swine before Pearls: Aristophanes at Play in Shelley's Swellfoot the Tyrant * 4: Aristophanes Burlesqued: Planché's Birds and Victorian Popular Theatre * 5: W.S. Gilbert, The English Aristophanes * 6: The Glory and the Shame: Debating the Aesthetics of Old Comedy * 7: Aristophanes in the Phrontisterion: Performances of Old Comedy at Schools and Universities * 8: Women's Aristophanes: Old Comedy and the Fight for Gender Equality * 9: Towards a Modern Aristophanes * 10: Conclusion * Bibliography
* List of Illustrations * 1: Introduction * 2: Out of Exile: Thomas Mitchell and John Hookham Frere * 3: Swine before Pearls: Aristophanes at Play in Shelley's Swellfoot the Tyrant * 4: Aristophanes Burlesqued: Planché's Birds and Victorian Popular Theatre * 5: W.S. Gilbert, The English Aristophanes * 6: The Glory and the Shame: Debating the Aesthetics of Old Comedy * 7: Aristophanes in the Phrontisterion: Performances of Old Comedy at Schools and Universities * 8: Women's Aristophanes: Old Comedy and the Fight for Gender Equality * 9: Towards a Modern Aristophanes * 10: Conclusion * Bibliography
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