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Aristophanes in Britain : old comedy in the nineteenth century
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Title
Aristophanes in Britain : old comedy in the nineteenth century / Peter Swallow.
ISBN
9780191964640
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2023.
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 9, 2023).
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Summary
This lively and wide-ranging study explores the reception of Aristophanes in the long-nineteenth century. It examines both political and aesthetic strands of this reception, and argues that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues - making Old Comedy new.
Variant and related titles
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 06, 2023
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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