Mary C English
Biographic Data
| ID | 5636990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary C English |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary C |
| FAMILY NAME | English |
| SIGNATURE | ENGLISH M C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Spirit of Aristophanes
This book is a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores classical Greek tragedy and comedy, Roman comedy, mime, philosophy, Latin epic, Latin epigram and the ancient novel. The volume begins on the plays of Aristophanes. While scholarly criticism has tended to overlook Aristophanic comedy as a touchstone of literary merit, the first chapters locate several qualities of ancient literature in his plays, and other chapters trace their dynamic…
Spirit of Aristophanes
Performing Ritual Sacrifice in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds
In Peace (421 BCE) and in Birds (414 BCE), Aristophanes crafts scenes where the comic heroes perform onstage sacrifices: Trygaeus celebrates the restoration of the goddess Peace and Peisetaerus marks the establishment of Cloudcuckooland with a tribute to the new gods. Aristophanes almost seems to mock religious conventions by having Trygaeus and Peisetaerus use the prayers and instruments of sacrifice to further their comic agenda; yet, at the sa…
Performing Ritual Sacrifice in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds
The Spirit of Aristophanes
The Spirit of Aristophanes is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of ancient literature and culture from fifth-century drama to the Roman novel. The essays use an array of approaches that will appeal to scholars and students interested in classical studies, gender and sexuality, literary history, performance and textual criticism. This volume has been prepared in tribute to Jeffrey Henderson, William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Langua…
Pushing the Boundaries of Historia
Eupolis
Reviewed by: Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy Mary C. English Ian C. Storey . Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 441. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-925992-5. Ian Storey's meticulous study of the surviving fragments of Eupolis is essential reading for every scholar and student of Greek drama. Ancient authors as early as Horace (Sat. 1.4.1–5) and Persius (1.122–124) believed that Aristophanes, Kratinos, and Eupolis were th…
Reconstructing Aristophanic Performance
Nowhere is Aristophanes' use of stage properties more striking than in Acharnians. Drawing on recent work in performance theory, this article attempts to reexamine the staging of major scenes in Acharnians by focusing on Aristophanes' concern for sensational and symbolically charged stage properties. Physical objects in this play seem to have two primary functions: (a) they "animate" and "anchor" many of Aristophanes' jokes; and (b) they are ofte…
The Death of Comedy
Venom in Verse
1. Poisoned Gift from Antiquity: Aristophanes as Paravase of Koraes' Nationalist Ideology Ch. 2. Aristophanes in Modern Greek: A Demotic, Satirical, and Theatrical Paravase Ch. 3. The Lysistrata Euphoria of 1900 to 1940: Sexual and Antifeminist Paravase Ch. 4. Koun's Birds of 1959: Paravase of Right-Wing Politics Ch. 5. Framing, Clowning, and Cloning Aristophanes Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Figures of Play
Figures of Play explores reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated agonistic basis of Greek civilization in a way that invited community of polis to confront itself. In theatre, as in courts and assemblies, a significant subset of Athenian public was spectator and judge of contests where important social and ideological issues were played to it by its own members. The syntax of dram…
Venom in Verse
1. Poisoned Gift from Antiquity: Aristophanes as Paravase of Koraes' Nationalist Ideology Ch. 2. Aristophanes in Modern Greek: A Demotic, Satirical, and Theatrical Paravase Ch. 3. The Lysistrata Euphoria of 1900 to 1940: Sexual and Antifeminist Paravase Ch. 4. Koun's Birds of 1959: Paravase of Right-Wing Politics Ch. 5. Framing, Clowning, and Cloning Aristophanes Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Venom in Verse
1. Poisoned Gift from Antiquity: Aristophanes as Paravase of Koraes' Nationalist Ideology Ch. 2. Aristophanes in Modern Greek: A Demotic, Satirical, and Theatrical Paravase Ch. 3. The Lysistrata Euphoria of 1900 to 1940: Sexual and Antifeminist Paravase Ch. 4. Koun's Birds of 1959: Paravase of Right-Wing Politics Ch. 5. Framing, Clowning, and Cloning Aristophanes Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Figures of Play
Figures of Play explores reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated agonistic basis of Greek civilization in a way that invited community of polis to confront itself. In theatre, as in courts and assemblies, a significant subset of Athenian public was spectator and judge of contests where important social and ideological issues were played to it by its own members. The syntax of dram…
The Death of Comedy
Eupolis
Reviewed by: Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy Mary C. English Ian C. Storey . Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 441. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-925992-5. Ian Storey's meticulous study of the surviving fragments of Eupolis is essential reading for every scholar and student of Greek drama. Ancient authors as early as Horace (Sat. 1.4.1–5) and Persius (1.122–124) believed that Aristophanes, Kratinos, and Eupolis were th…
Reconstructing Aristophanic Performance
Nowhere is Aristophanes' use of stage properties more striking than in Acharnians. Drawing on recent work in performance theory, this article attempts to reexamine the staging of major scenes in Acharnians by focusing on Aristophanes' concern for sensational and symbolically charged stage properties. Physical objects in this play seem to have two primary functions: (a) they "animate" and "anchor" many of Aristophanes' jokes; and (b) they are ofte…
Pushing the Boundaries of Historia
The Spirit of Aristophanes
This book is a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores classical Greek tragedy and comedy, Roman comedy, mime, philosophy, Latin epic, Latin epigram and the ancient novel. The volume begins on the plays of Aristophanes. While scholarly criticism has tended to overlook Aristophanic comedy as a touchstone of literary merit, the first chapters locate several qualities of ancient literature in his plays, and other chapters trace their dynamic…
Spirit of Aristophanes
Performing Ritual Sacrifice in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds
In Peace (421 BCE) and in Birds (414 BCE), Aristophanes crafts scenes where the comic heroes perform onstage sacrifices: Trygaeus celebrates the restoration of the goddess Peace and Peisetaerus marks the establishment of Cloudcuckooland with a tribute to the new gods. Aristophanes almost seems to mock religious conventions by having Trygaeus and Peisetaerus use the prayers and instruments of sacrifice to further their comic agenda; yet, at the sa…
Performing Ritual Sacrifice in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds
The Spirit of Aristophanes
The Spirit of Aristophanes is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of ancient literature and culture from fifth-century drama to the Roman novel. The essays use an array of approaches that will appeal to scholars and students interested in classical studies, gender and sexuality, literary history, performance and textual criticism. This volume has been prepared in tribute to Jeffrey Henderson, William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Langua…
Art (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Comedy (2 works) · Drama (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works)