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Available online or as a 3-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a comprehensive and accessible reference covering all of Greek comedy and its reception from antiquity to the present.

  • Features the work of nearly 200 established and rising scholars from around the world
  • Contains more than 1300 entries, organized in A-Z format, with helpful cross-references and an index of authors and plays
  • Provides extensive and detailed coverage of the work of those dramatists who have no complete plays extant
  • Explores a wide range of topics, including the varieties and phases of the genre; the authors and their major plays; composition and technique; the relationship between comedy and society; the preservation and transmission of comic texts; responses to Greek comedy by artists from Plato to Picasso and beyond; and modern methods of literary analysis and criticism

The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy, 3 Volume Set

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 21/05/2019
    ISBN13: 9781118605042, 978-1118605042
    ISBN10: 1118605047

    Number of Pages: 1184

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    Available online or as a 3-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a comprehensive and accessible reference covering all of Greek comedy and its reception from antiquity to the present.

    • Features the work of nearly 200 established and rising scholars from around the world
    • Contains more than 1300 entries, organized in A-Z format, with helpful cross-references and an index of authors and plays
    • Provides extensive and detailed coverage of the work of those dramatists who have no complete plays extant
    • Explores a wide range of topics, including the varieties and phases of the genre; the authors and their major plays; composition and technique; the relationship between comedy and society; the preservation and transmission of comic texts; responses to Greek comedy by artists from Plato to Picasso and beyond; and modern methods of literary analysis and criticism

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