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Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007

Peace, Birds and Frogs
Cover of 'Aristophanes in Performance', with the title in white over a blue background, under a watercolour illustration of Aristophanes' Birds.
Edith Hall and Amanda Wrigley
2007
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This volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of Aristophanes’ quest dramas’ seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim. 

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  1. Edith Hall, ‘Introduction: Aristophanic Laughter across the Centuries’ 
  1. Ewen Bowie, ‘The Ups and Downs of Aristophanic Travel’ 
  1. Matthew Steggle, ‘Aristophanes in Early Modern England’ 
  1. Edith Hall, ‘The English-Speaking Aristophanes, 1650–1914’ 
  1. Rosie Wyles, ‘Publication as Intervention: Aristophanes in 1659’ 
  1. Charalampos Orfanos, ‘Revolutionary Aristophanes?’ 
  1. Phiroze Vasunia, ‘Aristophanes’ Wealth and Dalpatram’s Lakshmi’ 
  1. Amanda Wrigley, ‘Aristophanes Revitalized! Music and Spectacle on the Academic Stage’ 
  1. Gonda Van Steen, ‘From Scandal to Success Story: Aristophanes’ Birds as Staged by Karolos Koun’ 
  1. Angeliki Varakis, ‘The Use of Masks in Koun’s Stage Interpretations of Birds’ 
  1. Bernd Seidensticker, ‘‘Aristophanes is Back!’ Peter Hacks’s Adaptation of Peace’ 
  1. Mary-Kay Gamel, ‘Sondheim Floats Frogs’ 
  1. Betine van Zyl Smit, ‘Freeing Aristophanes in South Africa: From High Culture to Contemporary Satire’ 
  1. Malika Bastin-Hammou, ‘Aristophanes’ Peace on the Twentieth-Century French Stage: From Political Statement to Artistic Failure’ 
  1. Martina Treu, ‘Poetry and Politics, Advice and Abuse: The Aristophanic Chorus on the Italian Stage’ 
  1.  Francesca Schironi, ‘A Poet without "Gravity": Aristophanes on the Italian Stage’ 
  1. Sean O’Brien, ‘A Version of the Birds in two Productions’ 
  1. Michael Silk, ‘Translating/Transposing Aristophanes’ 
  1. Vasiliki Giannopoulou, ‘Aristophanes in Translation before 1920’