Description
This book traces the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from 421 BC to AD 2007. It includes Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.
About the Author
Edith Hall
Reviews
This book is full of wonders: an eighteenth-century musical comedy based on Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris, a best-selling nineteenth-century translation of Plutus into Gujarati and the news that with just a little tweaking, the frogs chorus from Ranae can be sung to the tune of Cavanaugh and Barris 1928 hit 'Mississippi Mud'. The conference at Oxford in 2004 that led to this publication of papers must have been great fun. The book retains much of the flavor of that original venue.[...]... a valuable collection of essays...' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781904350613
Author Edith Hall
Format Hardback
Page Count 410
Imprint Maney Publishing
Publisher Maney Publishing
Weight(grams) 1043g
About the Author
Edith Hall
Reviews
This book is full of wonders: an eighteenth-century musical comedy based on Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris, a best-selling nineteenth-century translation of Plutus into Gujarati and the news that with just a little tweaking, the frogs chorus from Ranae can be sung to the tune of Cavanaugh and Barris 1928 hit 'Mississippi Mud'. The conference at Oxford in 2004 that led to this publication of papers must have been great fun. The book retains much of the flavor of that original venue.[...]... a valuable collection of essays...' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781904350613
Author Edith Hall
Format Hardback
Page Count 410
Imprint Maney Publishing
Publisher Maney Publishing
Weight(grams) 1043g
