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Book SynopsisBrill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.
Trade Review"Consistently thoughtful and frequently quite useful, Philip Walsh’s edited volume on the reception of Aristophanes, part of Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception series, is a model of the form. (...) this book should be a touchstone for future work on Aristophanes in the longue durée. (...) This is a handsomely produced volume, enhanced by the colorful inclusion of nearly forty recent Lysistrata posters compiled by Mitchell, one of which also graces the cover. (...) Walsh’s useful and engaging volume on the reception of Aristophanes is a testament to the maturity of the approach." A. C. Duncan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.03.35
Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgements Philip Walsh Notes on Contributors PART 1 - Aristophanes, Ancient and Modern: Debates, Education, and Juxtapositions 1 Aristophanes in Antiquity: Reputation and Reception Niall W. Slater 2 Modern Theory and Aristophanes Charles Platter 3 Aristophanes, Gender, and Sexuality James Robson 4 Aristophanes, Education, and Performance in Modern Greece Stavroula Kiritsi 5 Teaching Aristophanes in the American College Classroom John Given and Ralph M. Rosen 6 The “English Aristophanes”: Fielding, Foote, and Debates over Literary Satire Matthew J. Kinservik 7 Teknomajikality and the Humanimal in Aristophanes’ Wasps Mark Payne 8 Branding Irony: Comedy and Crafting the Public Persona Donna Zuckerberg PART 2 - Outreach: Adaptations, Translations, Scholarship, and Performances 9 Aristophanes in Early-Modern Fragments: Le Loyer’s La Néphélococugie (1579) and Racine’s Les Plaideurs (1668) Cécile Dudouyt 10 Aristophanes and the French Translations of Anne Dacier Rosie Wyles 11 The Verbal and the Visual: Aristophanes’ Nineteenth-Century English Translators Philip Walsh 12 Comedy and Tragedy in Agon(y): The 1902 Comedy Panathenaia of Andreas Nikolaras Gonda Van Steen 13 J.T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds of 1903 and 1924 C.W. Marshall 14 Murray’s Aristophanes Mike Lippman 15 “Attic Salt into an Undiluted Scots”: Aristophanes and the Modernism of Douglas Young Gregory Baker 16 Classical Reception in Posters of Lysistrata: The Visual Debate Between Traditional and Feminist Imagery Alexandre G. Mitchell 17 Afterword David Konstan General Bibliography Index Nominum et Rerum
