Paracomedy

By Craig Jendza,

Book cover of Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy

Book description

Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy…


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Why read it?

1 author picked Paracomedy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book offers a new way of reading the relationship between ancient Greek tragic and comic plays and the way in which the two genres interact with each other. It was really fruitful for my own research, and I'm very glad that Jendza has done the intellectual thinking to get me going on my own projects in the Latin literature space.

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