Menander, New Comedy and the Visual

Author:   Antonis K. Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781107645813


Pages:   334
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Menander, New Comedy and the Visual


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This book argues that New Comedy has a far richer performance texture than has previously been recognised. Offering close readings of all the major plays of Menander, it shows how intertextuality - the sustained dialogue of New Comedy performance with the diverse ideological, philosophical, literary and theatrical discourses of contemporary polis culture - is crucial in creating semantic depth and thus offsetting the impression that the plots are simplistic love stories with no political or ideological resonances. It also explores how the visual aspect of the plays ('opsis') is just as important as any verbal means of signification - a phenomenon termed 'intervisuality', examining in particular depth the ways in which the mask can infuse various systems of reference into the play. Masks like the panchrēstos neaniskos (the 'all-perfect youth'), for example, are now full of meaning; thus, with their ideologically marked physiognomies, they can be strong instigators of literary and cultural allusion.

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Author:   Antonis K. Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.70cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9781107645813


ISBN 10:   1107645816
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Menander's New Comedy between reality and textuality; 2. New performance: visuality and intervisuality in Menander; 3. Of Greeks and others: mask, character and action in New Comedy; 4. Of mice and (young) men: the mask as inter-face; 5. A few good men: the panchrēstos mask and the politics of perfection.

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Antonis K. Petrides (M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus.

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