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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Greek Comedy"”.
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE ROLE OF THE VALET DE COMEDIE AND HIS EMANCIPATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
… of valet de comédie from its origins in Middle Greek Comedy to the emergence of genuine character rather than the traditional mask, with particular emphasis on changes in the role in the eighteenth century.
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Moliere And Commedia Dell'arte:past, Present, And Future
… major influences on commedia dell'arte including Greek and Roman Comedy. It is important to discuss Roman comedic playwrights Plautus and Terence as two major influences on both the style of commedia dell'arte as well as major influences on Molière and his writing. A description of both …
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Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
… end of Wealth, explores the intended effect of comedy on the audience. Laughter and closure are two issues that are central to what comedy is ‘about’; getting to grips with them is implicit in any interpretation of comedy, and, as such, my attempt to do so will lay the groundwork for the second …
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Studies in the Linguistic Variation of Classical Attic and the Attic Orators
… analyses the distribution of these features in comedy to determine what the likely causes of variation were in the spoken language. These are then analysed in oratory (and, where possible, other texts) to determine how this genre reacted to these developments and whether the factors involved in …
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Concepts of (Un)dressing in Greek Drama
… scholarly interest in the performance aspects of Greek drama. This has entailed, in particular, a shift away from enquiries into the ostensible realia of Greek staging to explorations of their complex constructions, semiotics and agencies in the plays and their cultural contexts more widely. My …