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Aristophanes' Apology
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Aristophanes' Apology, a long poem in blank verse by R.
Browning, published 1875 as a sequel to
Balaustion's Adventure.
The core of the poem is a protracted argument between Balaustion and
Aristophanes as to the moral, social, and metaphysical value of the different aesthetics they espouse; Balaustion defending the visionary humanism of
Euripides, Aristophanes his own coarse realism. The poem also contains the remarkable fragment ‘Thamuris marching’, which reworks some of the material of ‘
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’.
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Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres.
Magazine article from: Intertexts; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Bakhtin seriously underrates the complexity of Aristophanes" (209-10). In Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres, Platter backs up his claim by showing the rewards of reading Aristophanes through a Bakhtinian lens. In each chapter...
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Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: 'Peace', 'Birds', and 'Frogs'.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007...performance history of three plays of Aristophanes' Old Comedy from their first performance...necessarily into the other plays by Aristophanes in order to fill chronological gaps...
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Heine's Aristophanes complex and the ambivalence of Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Wintermarchen in the light of the reference to Aristophanes' Birds in Canto 27. From here it...usurp the place of the gods. Ah 'Aristophanes complex' comes to light according...Peisetaerus (the hero of The Birds), with Aristophanes, and with God himself. The identification...
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Aristophanes.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Jeffrey Henderson, editor and translator Aristophanes. Volume 1: Acharnians, Knights...two volumes of Jeffrey Henderson's Aristophanes. It is the general aim of these new...right. Nous avons change tout cela. Aristophanes is a special case. The old Loeb Aristophanes...
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Gonda A. H. van Steen. Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...discusses the revival and reception of Aristophanes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century...valuable and detailed critical analysis of Aristophanes' role in modern Greece by linking...of Attic comedy, especially that of Aristophanes, into the lives of the Greeks in the...
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Heine's Aristophanes: Compromise formations and the ambivalence of carnival
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...griechischen Poeten (mit Ausnahme des Aristophanes)" (7: 423) ("where life often...Greek poets [with the exception of Aristophanes]").' This paper is dedicated neither...classical Athenian comic dramatist Aristophanes to hold his ground against the Elizabethan...
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Aristophanes: the Michael Moore of his day.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...some theater. There they might see Aristophanes' "Lysistrata," an anti-war play...the more biting plays, plays where Aristophanes names names - are seldom seen. Consider...often wildly popular. Even though Aristophanes didn't actually call Cleon by name...
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DAVID GORDON'S ARISTOPHANES IN BIRDONIA
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 1/18/2006; ; 700+ words
; DAVID GORDON'S ARISTOPHANES IN BIRDONIA Danspace Project at...playwright of the Old Comedy like Aristophanes could skewer pretty much whatever...century America, David Gordon turns Aristophanes' The Birds into a flight of barbs...
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Aristophanes as the founder of postmodernism rightly understood.
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Abstract: An ironic exploration of Aristophanes' anticipation of many of the doctrines...seeming agreement with postmodernists, Aristophanes comes to quite different conclusions...postmodern ideas should be disseminated. Aristophanes' Clouds is examined as a postmodern...
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WOMEN RULE: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THEATRE TO STAGE NEW ADAPTATION OF ARISTOPHANES COMEDY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/15/2006; 700+ words
; ...is staging an adaptation of Aristophanes' "Ecclesiazusae," or "A...have taken the framework of Aristophanes' play and used its firm foundation...construct a contemporary script." Aristophanes' play is a broad, but amusing...
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Aristophanes
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Aristophanes Born: c. 448 b.c.e. Athens...e. Athens, Greece Greek writer Aristophanes was the greatest of the writers of...which eleven still exist. His life Aristophanes was born in Athens between 450 and...
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Aristophanes' Apology
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Aristophanes' Apology, a long poem in blank verse...protracted argument between Balaustion and Aristophanes as to the moral, social, and metaphysical...the visionary humanism of Euripides , Aristophanes his own coarse realism. The poem also...
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Aristophanes of Byzantium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Aristophanes of Byzantium , c.257-180 BC, Greek scholar. He was librarian at Alexandria, edited various texts, and reputedly invented the Greek diacritical marks. Aristarchus of Samothrace was his pupil.
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English Aristophanes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
English Aristophanes, see FOOTE .
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Cleon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...civilized Athenians, such as Thucydides and Aristophanes, regarded as savage and cruel. When Aristophanes denounced such methods in the comedy...prosecuted the producers of the play. Aristophanes retaliated in The Knights in 424, pinning...
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