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Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings Oliver Taplin (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford)

Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings By Oliver Taplin (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford)

Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings by Oliver Taplin (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford)

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Presents a thesis about the relation of tragedy and comedy to vase-paintings, the cultural climate of cities of the Greek world outside Athens, and the extent to which Athenians were aware of drama as a commodity they could export.

Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings Summary

Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings by Oliver Taplin (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford)

This book opens up a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy; and it gives stage-centre to a particularly attractive and entertaining series of vase-paintings, which have been generally regarded as marginal curiosities. These are the so-called `phlyax vases', nearly all painted in the Greek cities of South Italy in the period 400 t0 360 BC. Up till now, they have been taken to reflect some kind of local folk-theatre, but Oliver Taplin, prompted especially by three that have only been published in the last twelve years, argues that most, if not all, reflect Athenian comedy of the sort represented by Aristophanes. This bold thesis opens up questions of the relation of tragedy as well as comedy to vase-painting, the cultural climate of the Greek cities in Italy, and the extent to which Athenians were aware of drama as a potential `export'. It also enriches appreciation of many key aspects of Aristophanic comedy: its metatheatre and self-reference, its use of stage-action and stage-props, its unabashed indecency, and its polarised relationship, even rivalry, with tragedy. The book has assembled thirty-six photographs of vase-paintings. Many are printed here for the first time outside specialist publications that are not readily accessible.

Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings Reviews

`Oliver Taplin's imaginative approach to Greek drama amy change our perpsective on the fate of both classical tragedy and - more surprisingly - Old Comedy ... His discussions of the Choregoi display scholarship as well as clever detective work ... This incisive study will raise both cheers and hackles. But it will not be ignored.' Times Literary Supplement
'Oliver Taplin is the doyen of Greek theatre studies ... The appearance of a third book on Greek drama must be an important event. Comic Angels is modest in its scale and ambitions, but the achievement is significant. The core of the book is entirely convincing ... It is a mark of the book's concrete achievement that it opens up so many potential areas of investigation. The 48 black and white plates are a valuable resource.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'the book is well written and interesting; the pictures are well chosen, situated conveniently in the text, and easy to consult as one reads ... altogether this is a book that students will find easy reading ... anyone who is interested in the history of drama must feel grateful to Taplin for bringing his thesis to public attention in such an interesting format and with sufficient illustration that even those not normally interested in vase painting will feel the attraction of these fascinating vases' William J. Slater, McMaster University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.4 (1993)
'very worthwhile study ... the book has some superb, well-chosen illustrations which demonstrate to good effect all of the feaures we have come to associate with comic characters ... This is an interesting and thought-provoking study, whih will encourage us to reappraise some long-held assumptions about the role of comedy beyond mainland Greece.' Richard Harrison, The Greek Gazette, November 1993
'This brief but thoroughly argued book...will interest mostly the specialist in vase-paintings, but moreso the student of the influence and recption of Athenian drama. Black-and-white photographs are numerous, all Greek quotations are translated, footnotes are copious, and a thorough index is provided.' Donald L Jennermann, Religious Studies Review, Vol 20, No 1, January 1994
'T. writes enthusiastically and with personal engagement ... This book is most stimulating both for art history and for the study of comedy.' John Wilkins, University of Exeter, The Classical REview, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, 1994
illuminating * Greece and Rome Reviews 42 *

Table of Contents

Aristophanes - Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by Sir Kenneth Dover; Aristophenes Lysistrata, edited with introduction and commentary by Jeffrey Henderson; Aristophanes Clouds, edited with introduction and commentary by Sir Kenneth Dover; Greek vases - lectures by J.D. Beazley, edited by D.C. Kurtz; the Meidias painter, Lucilia Burn; the Micali painter and his followers, Nigel Jonathan Spivey; Greek architectural terracottas, Nancy A. Winter.

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NPB9780198147978
9780198147978
019814797X
Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings by Oliver Taplin (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford)
Oliver Taplin (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford)
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Oxford University Press
1993-01-28
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