Three Actors in Old Comedy, Again
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20071312 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C W Marshall (0000-0001-6669-3231, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 257-278 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Performance in Greek and Roman theatre (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004245457_015 |
| OpenAlex | W2465275258 |
| ISBN | 9789004245457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
This chapter provides an overview of previous scholarship and a new assessment of the nature of the evidence, and revisits the practice of role doubling in Aristophanes, with a particular focus on Aristophanes' Birds . This provides new insight into the demands placed on actors in comedy in the fifth century, and helps articulate what is at stake in considering these questions. The application of the Three-Actor Rule to tragic texts produces surprising parallels between characters that yield an interpretative benefit for understanding the play. The situation in Old Comedy is less straightforward. The best raw data for determining the application of the rule are the plays of Aristophanes themselves. The most obvious example is Clouds . A detailed examination of Bird shows how using three actors clarifies the stage action of that play. The other examples illustrated in the chapter are Frogs and Lysistrata . Keywords:Aristophanes; Birds ; Clouds ; Frogs ; Lysistrata ; old comedy; Three-Actor Rule
Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Literature · Parallels · Political science · Scholarship · Classical Antiquity Studies · Engineering · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods
Laughter
Fourth-century comedy before Menander
Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy
Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy
The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander
Character types
Comedy and Athenian festival culture
Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander
Comedy and Athenian law
Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions
The politics of Greek comedy
Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy
Contexts of reception in antiquity
The reception of Greek comedy in Rome
The Greek ‘comic hero’
Theiconography of comedy
Divinity and religious practice
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |