Tragedy on the comic stage /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the reader
- Introduction
- Part One: The fragments of Greek comedy
- Electra and the coal pan: tragic culture in the comic fragments
- Give me a bit of paratragedy: tragic parody in the comic fragments
- Part Two: Aristophanes
- The man is obsessed with song: a contest of genres in Wasps
- Euripides in the echo chamber: poets and their poetry in women at the Thesmophoria
- Writing beyond genres: the Dionysiac festival in Gerytades and wealth
- Conclusion.