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Product details
- ISBN 9780199569359
- Weight: 683g
- Dimensions: 147 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2009
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. Using a methodologically innovative approach, Emmanuela Bakola studies the surviving fragments of Cratinus' plays and offers a thorough analysis of the multifaceted art of this poet and his place in the history of comedy. Issues which she addresses include the creation of a poetic personality within a performative tradition of fierce interpoetic rivalry; the play at the boundaries of the comic genre and the interaction with satyr drama and tragedy, especially Aeschylus; stagecraft and dramaturgy; comic plot-construction and characterization; the author's reflection on his immediate political, social and intellectual context. As well as providing insight into Cratinus, her book enriches our understanding of fifth-century Athenian comedy in a dynamic evolving environment.
Emmanuela Bakola is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London.
