Cratinus and the art of comedy /
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- Poetic persona and poetic voice in Cratinus' comedy: Cratinus' poetic persona ; The diffusion of poetic voice in Old Comedy ; 'Cratinus' and the chorus : parabases, parodoi, and exodoi ; 'Cartinus' in the dialogue ; The poet's voice dramatized : Pytine ; Poetic contests and poetic self-definition : Aristophanes' Frogs and Cratinus' Archilochoi
- Cratinus and the satyr play: Dionysalexandros and the satyr play ; Crossing the boundaries : satyr play in (other) fifth-century comedies ; Interplay of comedy and satyr drama in the fifth century, Cratinus' place in the process
- Cratinus and tragedy: Plutoi, the Prometheus plays, and Aeschylus' Oresteia ; Drapetides and the suppliant-tragedy ; Seriphioi and tragic performance ; Nemesis and the tragic manner ; Eumenides and other Aeschylus ; New perspectives on comedy's use of tragedy
- Myth, politics, and drama : elements of plot-composition in the comedy of Cratinus: Dionysalexandros : allegory and complexity ; Multiple plot-strands in other comedies : Plutoi and unjust wealth ; Myth, politics, and tragedy in Nemesis ; A scene of multiple meaning in Seriphioi ; Strands of plot and characrterization in Cratinus
- Production and imagination: The construction and use of space : Odysseis, Plutoi, and other plays ; Costume and disguise : Dionysalexandros ; Imagery and personification as shapers of stage action : Pytine and the beauty contest in Dionysalexandros ; Approaching performance in Cratinus' fragmentary comedy
- Appendix 1: The parabasis proper of Cratinus' Dionysalexandros (POxy 663, Il. 6-9)
- Appendix 2: The date of the accusations against Phidias and his trial
- Appendix 3: Papyrus fragments of Plutoi
- Appendix 4: Hypothesis to Dionysalexandros (POxy 663, text edited by K-A, iv. 140)
- Appendix 5: New edition of the papyrus hypothesis to Dionysalexandros (POxy 663).