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Author : Gary Robert Grund
Release : 2005
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Humanist Comedies by : Gary Robert Grund
Download or read book Humanist Comedies written by Gary Robert Grund. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five comedies included in this volume present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento.
Author : Alexander Welsh
Release : 2014-05-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Humanist Comedy by : Alexander Welsh
Download or read book The Humanist Comedy written by Alexander Welsh. This book was released on 2014-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
Author : S. Douglas Olson
Release : 2013-12-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancient Comedy and Reception by : S. Douglas Olson
Download or read book Ancient Comedy and Reception written by S. Douglas Olson. This book was released on 2013-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.
Author : Árpád Szakolczai
Release : 2013
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 91X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Comedy and the Public Sphere by : Árpád Szakolczai
Download or read book Comedy and the Public Sphere written by Árpád Szakolczai. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of the public sphere, and in this manner reformulating definitions of common sense, personal identity, and culture.
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Release : 2011-02-15
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 252/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Humanist Tragedies by :
Download or read book Humanist Tragedies written by . This book was released on 2011-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a representative sampling of Latin drama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. The five tragedies included in this volume were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-humanist sources.
