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The Origin of Attic Comedy

The Origin of Attic Comedy

Cornford, Francis MacDonald
MacDonald Cornford, Francis

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521182077
ISBN13: 9780521182072
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 17 2011
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Origin of Attic Comedy was originally published in 1934. Its author, Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943), was Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Beginning with Aristotle's observation that from the earliest stage Attic Comedy had 'certain definite forms', Cornford shows that these forms are clearly observable in the plays of Aristophanes and that they derived from a ritual drama common to both tragedy and comedy. Cornford was surprised by his own conclusions and his enquiries led him far from his original view that Aristophanic Comedy was composed of loosely connected and foreign sources. Combining a close examination of the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes and a broad treatment of the relationship between tragedy and comedy, this book will continue to merit review as a robust study of the origins of ancient Greek comedy.

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