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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 such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy.Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence.

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Der Jesuit Jakob Balde (1604–1668), der „deutsche Horaz“, ist als einer der bedeutendsten Lyriker der Frühen Neuzeit bekannt. Wenig Beachtung hat man hingegen seinem vielfältigen dramatischen Werk geschenkt, dem sich der vorliegende Band widmet. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht ein Kernelement der dramatischen Technik Baldes: Der tragische Chor. Baldes Chor entsteht aus der selbstbewussten intellektuellen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Chor der senecanischen Tragödien, für dessen Funktion eine Neubestimmung vorgeschlagen wird. Damit bietet der Band grundlegende Einsichten in das dramatische Schaffen zweier unterschätzter Tragiker: Seneca und Balde.

Latin drama (Tragedy) --- Choirs (Music). --- Choral music. --- Latin drama (Tragedy). --- History and criticism. --- Balde, Jakob, --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tragedies (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus).