Название: Menander, New Comedy and the Visual (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Автор: Antonis K. Petrides
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107068436
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 334
Размер: 4,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
This book argues that New Comedy has a far richer performance texture than has previously been recognised. Offering close readings of all the major plays of Menander, it shows how intertextuality - the sustained dialogue of New Comedy performance with the diverse ideological, philosophical, literary and theatrical discourses of contemporary polis culture - is crucial in creating semantic depth and thus offsetting the impression that the plots are simplistic love stories with no political or ideological resonances.