Ancient Comedy and Reception () von S. Douglas Olson

ANCIENT COMEDY AND RECEPTION:
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JEFFREY HENDERSON

Foreword
S. Douglas Olson

Ancient Comedy and Receptions

1. Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes
Zachary P. Biles, Franklin and Marshall College

2. Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression
Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania

3. Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes
James Robson, Open University

4. Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, University of Göttingen

5. Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy?
Oliver Taplin, Oxford University

6. Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di Aristofane
Giuseppe Mastromarco, Università degli Studi di Bari

7. Dionysus' Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes' Paraenetic Pedigree
Mark Alonge, Independent Scholar

8. Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes?
J.R. Green, University of Sydney/Institute of Classical Studies, University of London

9. Plato's Aristophanes
Charles Platter, University of Georgia

10. Menander's Samia and the Phaedra Theme
Alan H. Sommerstein, University of Nottingham

11. Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander's Kolax in Three Roman Receptions (Naevius, Plautus and Terence's Eunuchus)
Michael Fontaine, Cornell University

12. Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus. Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes?
Simone Beta, Università di Siena

13. Plautus und die Techniken des Improvisationstheaters
Eckard Lefèvre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität

14. Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra's Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard
(Plautus Merc. 817-29)
Boris Dunsch, Philipps-Universität Marburg

15. "Letting It All Hang Out": Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman Satire
Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary

16. Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical Problem
Ian Ruffell, University of Glasgow

17. Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman Fiction
Niall W. Slater, Emory University

18. From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient Novel
Steven D. Smith, Hofstra University

19. Greek Culture as Images: Menander's Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek East
Sebastiana Nervegna, University of Sydney

20. The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of Menander
Niall W. Slater, Emory University

Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions

21. Medieval Vernacular Versions of Antique Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' Amphitryon
Laura Kendrick, Université de Versailles

22. Aristofane mascherato. Un secolo (1415-1504) di fortuna e 'sfortuna'
Ludovica Radif, Università di Genova

23. L'influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni Pontano
Hélène Casanova-Robin, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

24. Strepsiades' Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes' Clouds
John Nassichuk, University of Western Ontario

25. The Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell'Arte
Francesca Schironi, University of Michigan

26. Aristophanes in England, 1500-1660
Robert S. Miola, Loyola University in Maryland

27. Exaggerating Terence's Andria: Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy's The Perjur'd Devotee and Terentian Criticism
Maik Goth, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

28. Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text
Adele Scafuro, Brown University

29. Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition
†Philip Ford, Clare College, Cambridge

30. Jacob Masen's Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater
Gesine Manuwald, University College London

31. La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española
Benjamín García-Hernández, Rosario López Gregoris y Carmen González-Vázquez,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

32. Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792)
Robert Tordoff, York University

Modern Receptions

33. Polos und Polis: Aristophanes? Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks
Bernhard Greiner, Universität Tübingen

34. Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19th Century
Maria Luisa Chirico, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli

35. Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes' Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s
Gonda Van Steen, University of Florida

36. Rodgers and Hart's The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine
Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas at Austin

37. She (Don't) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of Lysistrata
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University

38. "Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!": Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes
Peter v. Möllendorff, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

39. Lysistrata on Broadway
Marina Kotzamani, University of the Peloponnese

40. "Attend, O Muse, Our Holy Dances and Come to Rejoice in Our Songs": The Reception of Aristophanes in the Modern Musical Theater
Simone Beta, Università di Siena

41. Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s-1960s
Amanda Wrigley, University of Westminster

42. Cultural Politics and Aesthetic Debate in Two Modern Versions of Aristophanes' Frogs
Graham Ley, University of Exeter

43. Ionesco's New and Old Comedy
David Konstan, New York University

44. Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, the Metamorphoses of Lysistrata
Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University

45. Who's Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century Italy
Martina Treu, IULM - Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Milan

46. Aristophanes in Israel: Comedy, Theatricality, Politics
Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University

47. Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans
Betine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham

48. The Maculate Muse in the 21st Century: Recent Adaptations of Aristophanes' Peace and Ecclesiazusae
Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University

49. Eschyle et Euripide entre tragédie et comédie : polyphonie et interprétation dans quelques traductions récentes des Grenouilles d'Aristophane
Ariane Eissen, Université de Poitiers
Myrto Gondicas, freelance translator

50. Business as Usual: Plautus' Menaechmi in English Translation
J. Michael Walton, University of Hull

This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.