Gonda A. H. van Steen. Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece.(Book Review)

Comparative Drama | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii + 284. $39.50.

Venom in Verse discusses the revival and reception of Aristophanes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece within a unique cultural and political context. Gonda van Steen provides a very valuable and detailed critical analysis of Aristophanes' role in modern Greece by linking the revival of Aristophanic study, translation, and theatrical performance to the search for a new political, cultural, and linguistic identity by the Greek nation during and after Greece's War of Independence in the ...

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