Fontaine M., Scafuro A.C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 912 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-974354-4.In recent decades literary approaches to drama have multiplied: new historical, intertextual, political, performative and metatheatrical, socio-linguistic, gender-driven, transgenre-driven. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From the birth of comedy in Greece to its end in Rome, from the Hellenistic diffusion of performances beginning in the age of Alexander to its artistic, scholarly, and literary receptions in the later Roman Empire, no topic is neglected. Forty-one essays spread across Greek comedy, Roman comedy, and the transmission and reception of ancient comedy by an international team of experts offer cutting-edge guides through the immense terrain of the field, while an expert introduction surveys the major trends and shifts in scholarly study of comedy from the 1960s to today. The handbook includes two detailed appendices that provide invaluable research tools for both scholars and students. The result offers Hellenists an excellent overview of Greek comedy and its earliest reception and creative reuse, Latinists a broad perspective of the evolution of Roman Comedy, and scholars and students of classics an excellent resource and entry point for future research.Michael Fontaine is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Cornell University.
Adele C. Scafuro is Professor of Classics at Brown University.Ancient comedy: the longue durée / Adele C. Scafuro
In search of the essence of old comedy: from Aristotle's Poetics to Zieliński, Cornford, and beyond / Jeffrey Rusten
Performing comedy in the fifth through early third centuries / Eric Csapo
Dionysiac festivals in Athens and the financing of comic performances / Andronike Makres
The first poets of old comedy / Ian Storey
The last laugh: Eupolis, Strattis, and Plato against Aristophanes / Mario Telò
Aristophanes / Bernhard Zimmermann
Comedy in the fourth century I: mythological burlesques / Ionnis M. Konstantakos
Comedy in the fourth century II: politics and domesticity / Jeffrey Henderson
Comedy in the late fourth and early third centuries BCE / Adele C. Scafuro
Menander / Adele C. Scafuro
Reconstructing Menander / Alain Blanchard
Crossing genres: comedy, tragedy, and satyr play / Johanna Hanink
Crossing conceptual worlds: Greek comedy and philosophy / David Konstan
The politics of comic Athens / David Rosenbloom
Law and Greek comedy / Emiliano J. Buis
Religion and the gods in Greek comedy / Scott Scullion
The diffusion of comedy from the age of Alexander to the beginning of the Roman Empire / Brigitte le Guen
Hellenistic mime and its reception in Rome / Costas Panayotakis
The beginnings of Roman comedy / Peter G. McC. Brown
Festivals, producers, theatrical spaces, and records / George Fredric Franko
Plautus between Greek comedy and Atellan farce: assessments and reassessments / Antonis K. Petrides
Plautus's dramatic predecessors and contemporaries in Rome / Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo
Plautus and Terence in performance / Erica M. Bexley
Metrics and music / Marcus Deufert
Prologue(s) and Prologi / Boris Dunsch
Between two paradigms: Plautus / Michael Fontaine
The Terentian reformation: from Menander to Alexandria / Michael Fontaine
The language of the Palliata / Evangelos Karakasis
Tragedy, paratragedy, and Roman comedy / Gesine Manuwald
Roman comedy and the social scene / Erich Gruen
Law and Roman comedy / Ian Felix Gaertner
Religion in Roman comedy / Boris Dunsch
The transmission of Aristophanes / Nigel Wilson
Later Greek comedy in later antiquity / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
The rebirth of a codex: virtual work on the Ambrosian palimpsest of Plautus / Walter Stockert
The transmission of Terence / Benjamin Victor
Graphic comedy: Menandrian mosaics and Terentian miniatures / Sebastiana Nervegna
Greek comedy, the novel, and epistolography / Regina Höschele
Roman comedy in the second sophistic / Regine May
The reception of Plautus in antiquity / Rolando Ferri
Aelius Donatus and his commentary on Terence's comedies / Chrysanthi Demetriou