Initiating Dionysus : ritual and theatre in Aristophanes' Frogs

Ismene Lada-Richards

This book offers a challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological approaches, it deploys an impressive series of religious and cultural considerations which have never previously been used to illuminate this text. Rather than seeking to recover the 'authorial' meaning of the Frogs, Dr Lada-Richards attempts to reconstruct the wider spectrum of potential meanings that various segments of the play could have had in their own socio-cultural milieu. The key question the book explores is how membership in Greek fifth-century society would have shaped understanding of the play, with particular emphasis on the persona of Dionysus who, as Dr Lada-Richards argues, should not be viewed merely as a stock comic character but as inseparable from the complex, paradoxical figure of his mythical and ritual counterpart. Combining sophistication and complexity with clarity and elegance of style, the book is addresses to the scholar as well as the student of Greek drama and culture, and its insights should appeal to anybody interested in the manifold ways theatre (of any period and culture) remoulds the ritual sequences of the social frame to which it belongs.

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書名 Initiating Dionysus : ritual and theatre in Aristophanes' Frogs
著作者等 Lada-Richards, Ismene
Lada-Richards Ismeme
出版元 Clarendon Press;Oxford University Press
刊行年月 1999
ページ数 xxiv, 387 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0198149816
NCID BA42912088
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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