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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


Table of Contents

Volume I

List of Entries

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Preface

List of Abbreviations

The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

Volume II

List of Abbreviations

The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

Volume III

List of Abbreviations

The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

Index

The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy 3 Volume Set

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 21 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9781118605042
      978-1118605042
      ISBN-10 1118605047

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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


      Table of Contents

      Volume I

      List of Entries

      List of Illustrations

      Notes on Contributors

      Preface

      List of Abbreviations

      The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

      Volume II

      List of Abbreviations

      The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

      Volume III

      List of Abbreviations

      The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

      Index

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