Talking about Laughter: and Other Studies in Greek Comedy

by Alan H. Sommerstein

Overview

This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191569685
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/05/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham.

Editorial Reviews

"Talking About Laughter is a must-read for specialists, but it also has much to offer non-specialists and both graduate and advanced undergraduate students: these are original works of scholarship that wear their great learning lightly, that are lucidly and engagingly written, and that illuminate important topics with cogency, imagination, and flair." —Classical World

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