The comedy of errors / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; table of contents; Preface: No Experience Necessary; Characters in the Play; Scene 1; Scene 2; Scene 3; Scene 4; Scene 5; Performing Shakespeare; Performance Notes: The Comedy of Errors; Set and Prop List; Additional Resources.…”
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The comedy of errors / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- EDITORIAL PROCEDURES -- THE COMEDY OF ERRORS -- THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY -- INDEX.…”
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The Comedy of Errors. by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Comedy of errors Problems, exercises, etc.…”
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Greek Comedy and Ideology. by Konstan, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; I. Aristophanic Comedy: Politics and Utopia; 1. Wasps; 2. Birds; 3. …”
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Performing Greek Comedy. by Hughes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Cover; PERFORMING GREEK COMEDY; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Comedy in art, Athens and abroad; THE EVIDENCE; Vases; Figurines; Is this evidence reliable?…”
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Venom in verse : Aristophanes in modern Greece by Van Steen, Gonda Aline Hector, 1964-

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Venom in verse : Aristophanes in modern Greece by Van Steen, Gonda Aline Hector, 1964-

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Performing Interpersonal Violence : Court, Curse, and Comedy. by Riess, Werner

Table of Contents: “…Proportions -- Social Origins of Cursers -- Functions of TabletsRitual Framing; Ritual Actions (drômena); Ritual Words (legomena); Degree of Violence; Diachronic Development; Conclusion; IV. Old and New Comedy; Ritual Framing; Ritual Origins; Theater Production as Ritual Process; Ritual Efficacy; The Discursive Rules of Violence; Aristophanes; Three Case Studies: Wasps, Birds, and Clouds; The Double-Layerdness of Violence; Aristophanes' Discourse on Democracy -- Summary; Menander; Menander's Discourse on Society -- Summary; Ritual Functions of Scenes of Violence in Comedy; Conclusion.…”
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Barbarian play : Plautus' Roman comedy / by Anderson, William S. (William Scovil), 1927-

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Rude talk in Athens : ancient rivals, the birth of comedy, and a writer's journey through Greece / by Smith, Mark Haskell

Subjects: “…Greek drama (Comedy) History and criticism.…”
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Menander in antiquity : the contexts of reception by Nervegna, Sebastiana, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Canonizing Menander in Athens, Alexandria and Rome -- Menander in public theatres -- Menander at dinner parties -- Menander in schools -- Appendix one: Roman palliatae and their Greek models -- Appendix two: Paintings and mosaics illustrating new comedy -- Appendix three: Paintings and mosaics illustrating tragedy -- Appendix four: Menander-papyri.…”
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Reproducing Athens : Menander's comedy, democratic culture, and the Hellenistic city / by Lape, Susan, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Narratives of resistance and romance : democracy and comedy in the early Hellenistic Period -- Reproducing democracy in oligarchic and autocratic Athens -- Making citizens in comedy and court -- The ethics of democracy in Menander's Dyskolos -- The politics of sexuality in drama in Democratic Athens : the case of Menander's Samia -- The Mercenary romance : gender and civic education in the Perikeiromenē and Misoumenos -- Trials of masculinity in democratic discourse and Menander's Sikyōnioi.…”
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Karagiozis : culture & comedy in Greek puppet theater / by Myrsiades, Linda S.

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Comic business : theatricality, dramatic technique, and performance contexts of Aristophanic comedy / by Revermann, Martin

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Aristophanes, an author for the stage by Russo, Carlo Ferdinando

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 THE THEATRICAL SEASONS AND THE DAWN OF COMEDY -- chapter 2 CHRONOLOGY OF AN APPRENTICESHIP -- chapter 3 ACHARNIANS -- chapter 4 KNIGHTS -- chapter 5 CLOUDS -- chapter 6 WASPS -- chapter 7 PEACE -- chapter 8 BIRDS -- chapter 9 LYSISTRATA -- chapter 10 THESMOPHORIAZUSAE -- chapter 11 FROGS -- chapter 12 ASSEMBLYWOMEN -- chapter 13 PLUTUS -- chapter 14 ELEMENTS OF A THEATRICAL CAREER -- chapter 15 THE DISORDERLY WASPS AND AN 18×2 TETRAMETER MODULE.…”
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Crisis on stage : tragedy and comedy in late fifth-century Athens /

Table of Contents: “…Aristophanes and Greek Comedy; Women on the Acropolis and Mental Mapping: Comic Body-Politics in a City in Crisis, or Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes' Lysistrata.…”
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Aristophanes and politics : new studies

Table of Contents: “…Aristophanes' political comedies and (bad?) imitations /…”
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When a young man falls in love : the sexual exploitation of women in new comedy / by Rosivach, Vincent J.

Table of Contents: “…Characteristics of the rape motif in New Comedy. 5. Sources of the rape motif in New Comedy. 6. …”
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Law and Drama in Ancient Greece. by Harris, Edward M.

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Komedia omyłek by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

“…Comedy of errors.…”
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Free speech in classical antiquity

Table of Contents: “…Aischrology, Shame, and Comedy /…”
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Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC

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Insults in classical Athens by Kamen, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Skōmmata and aischrologia: benign insults -- Kōmōidein and skōptein: mockery in Old Comedy -- Diabolē and loidoria: invective in Attic oratory -- Kakēgoria and aporrhēta: forbidden verbal abuse -- Hubris: affronts to honor.…”
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Homosexuality in Greece and Rome : a sourcebook of basic documents

Table of Contents: “…Greek Historical Texts; 3. Greek Comedy; 4. Greek Oratory; 5. Greek Philosophy; 6. …”
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The languages of Aristophanes : aspects of linguistic variation in Classical Attic Greek by Willi, Andreas

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The theatrical cast of Athens : interactions between ancient Greek drama and society by Hall, Edith, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The theatrical roles of Athens -- Childbearing women: birth and family crisis in ancient drama -- Visible women: painted masks and tragic aesthetics -- Horny satyrs and tragic tetralogies -- Female personifications of poetry in old comedy -- Recasting the barbarian -- The Scythian archer in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae -- Drowning act: the Greeks, swimming, and Timotheus' Persians -- Singing roles in tragedy -- Casting the role of Trygaeus in Aristophanes' Peace -- Lawcourt dramas: acting and performance in legal oratory.…”
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The emergence of reflexivity in Greek language and thought : from Homer to Plato and beyond by Jeremiah, Edward T.

Table of Contents: “…Conscience And The Reflexivisation Of Sunoida; 6. Tragedy And Comedy; 1. Introduction; 2. Tragedy; 3. Comedy; 4. …”
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BeitrÄnge zur Altertumskunde : Diagoras of Melos : A Contribution to the History of Ancient Atheism. by Winiarczyk, Marek

Table of Contents: “…Analysis of the More Important Sources ; 1. Hermippus ; 2. The comedies of Aristophanes ; A. The Clouds ; B. The Birds ; C. …”
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Flattering the demos : fiction and democratic education

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- revenge of the poets: euripides and the education of the demos -- of villains and victims: guilt and bad conscience in richard iii -- only human: free will and choice in asimov's i, robot -- comedy and comic books -- explaining the paranoid style in american politics: system disjuncture and narratives of fiction -- a band of brothers against terrorism: the citizen-soldier ideal in post-9/11 us military mobilization -- political tv series, or, a case of unflattering the demos: a new setting for cultivation theory -- the problem with the pitiable rump: of impropriety and political philosophy.…”
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Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- Tragic tyranny / Richard Seaford -- Dēmos tyrannos: wealth, power, and economic patronage / Lisa Kallet -- Demos, demagogue, tyrant in Attic old comedy / Jeffrey Henderson -- The tyranny of audience in Plato and Isocrates / Kathryn A. …”
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Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- Tragic tyranny / Richard Seaford -- Dēmos tyrannos: wealth, power, and economic patronage / Lisa Kallet -- Demos, demagogue, tyrant in Attic old comedy / Jeffrey Henderson -- The tyranny of audience in Plato and Isocrates / Kathryn A. …”
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Performance in Greek and Roman theatre

Table of Contents: “…Ketterer -- Staging 'rhesus' / Vayos Liapis -- Greek comedy. Actors in old comedy, again / C.W. Marshall -- 'The Odeion on his head': costume and identity in Cratinus' Thracian women: Fr. 73 / Jeffrey S. …”
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Performance, iconography, reception : studies in honour of Oliver Taplin

Table of Contents: “…Zeitlin -- Character and characterization in Greek tragedy / Bernd Seidensticker -- Scenes at the door in Aristophanic comedy / Peter Brown -- The poetics of the mask in old comedy / David Wiles -- Putting performance into focus / Robin Osborne -- The Greek gem : a token of recognition / Alfonso Moreno -- Image and representation in the pottery of Magna Graecia / François Lissarrague -- Wagner's Greeks : the politics of Hellenism / Simon Goldhill -- Resurrecting ancient Greece in Nazi Germany : the Oresteia as part of the Olympic Games in 1936 / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Can the Odyssey ever be tragic? …”
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Pericles : a Sourcebook and Reader by Tracy, Stephen V.

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Pericles : a Sourcebook and Reader by Tracy, Stephen V.

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The Edinburgh companion to ancient Greece and Rome

Table of Contents: “…Greek epic / Johannes Haubold -- Roman epic / Bruce Gibson -- Greek tragedy / Pantelis Michelakis -- Roman tragedy / Roland Mayer -- Greek comedy / Ian Ruffell -- Roman comedy / Alison Sharrock -- Greek lyric verse : melic, elegiac and iambic / Emily Greenwood.…”
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The Greek Polis and the invention of democracy : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations

Table of Contents: “…The "Political Sphere," the Risk of Acting, and TragedyOrigin and Political Function of Tragedy; Acting Too Quickly; Ill-advised Action: Creon and Oedipus; The Riddle and the Oracle; Antigone and Orestes: Personal Autonomy, the Climax of Aboulia, and the Recognition of Human Fallibility; No Certainty Anywhere: The Fragility of euboulia; Abbreviation; 4 Democracy and Dissent: the Case of Comedy; Freedom of the Ancients and Freedom of the Moderns; Comedy and the "Company of Athenian Critics" of Democracy; Criticism of Democracy on Stage: from Cratinus to Aristophanes.…”
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Lysistrata by Aristophanes

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Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world

Table of Contents: “…James -- Infamous performers : comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome / Anne Duncan -- The phallic lesbian : philosophy, comedy, and social inversion in Lucian's Dialogues of the courtesans / Kate Gilhuly.…”
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Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome. by García, J. Virgilio

Table of Contents: “…'Religious register' and comedy:the case of cratinusoracles and riddles ambo fratres; late antique oracles; en torno al vocabularioreligioso helenístico; intertextualityand the cultic dimensionin lycophron's rewriting of myth; the achilles' oath in hom. il. 1.236-244:intertextuality and survival; plegaria e himno literario; the magicians who sang to the gods; thesea devovi; el himno de adrasto a apoloen la tebaida de estacio; poetic and religioustraditionalism in avienus; venus, ceres and ovid; magic as a poetic process; poetic and religious language in romantragic fragments concerning medea.…”
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