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"The 'Characters' is a literary work unique in nature and dazzling, though difficult, in language and style. It is also an important resource for students of ancient history and society. In 2004 I published an edition of this work in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries - not designed for the faint-hearted. There is, I believe, a wider audience waiting for something less daunting and more usable. I am grateful to the editors of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics for giving me the opportunity to make the work accessible to that wider audience. Some of the introductory material remains unchanged ; but I have greatly abbreviated discussion of the work's date, reduced discussion of the manuscript tradition to the barest minimum, and omitted discussion of earlier texts and commentaries. I have made a few changes to the Greek text and I have abbreviated the apparatus criticus. The main changes are in the Commentary. This I have not only abbreviated radically but also substantially reshaped and rewritten, introducing more (and briefer) lemmata, more translations, many basic explanations of matters of fact and language, substituting (where feasible) less demanding works of reference and adding references to the 'Cambridge Greek Lexicon (CGL)'. I have severely curtailed textual discussion and the citation of bibliographical references. And I have taken account of relevant work published in the past twenty years. My aim throughout has been to enable the student to understand and enjoy this golden little book."--adapted from Preface, page vii. "Theophrastus was born at Eresos on Lesbos in 372/1 or 370/1 BC. His name was originally changed by Aristotle, in recognition (so later writers believed) of his divine eloquence. His association with Aristotle will have begun at Athens, if we accept that he studied with Plato. Otherwise it will have begun at Assos (on the coast of Asia Minor opposite Lesbos), where Hermias, ruler of Atarneus, former fellow-student of Aristotle in the Academy, gathered together a group of philosophers after the death of Plato in 348/7. The association continued in Macedonia, where Aristotle was invited by Philip II in 343/2, and in Athens, when Aristotle returned there in 335/4 and founded the Lyceum. The vicissitudes of the period which follows, and some of its leading figures, are reflected in the 'Characters'. Lycurgus, during whose period of political influence Athens had retained a democratic constitution and a measure of independence from Macedonia, died c. 325/4. Alexander (xxiii.3) died in 323. During the uprising against Macedonia which followed, Aristotle left Athens for Euboea, where he died in 322/1, and Theophrastus became head of the Lyceum. Antipater (xxiii.4), regent of Macedonia, defeated the Athenians and their allies in 322, placed Athens under the control of Phocion, and imposed an oligarchic constitution and a Macedonian garrison. He designated Polyperchon (viii.6), general of Alexander, to succeed him in preference to his own son Cassander (viii.6), with whom Theophrastus was on friendly terms"--

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How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the function of literary characters.Rosen traces the recent surge in "minor-character elaboration" to the late 1960s and works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. These early examples often recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups. As the genre has exploded between the 1980s and the present, with novels about Ahab's wife, Huck Finn's father, and Mr. Dalloway, it has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency. Eventually, large-scale publishers capitalized on the genre as a way to appeal to educated audiences aware of the prestige of the classics and to draw in identity-based niche markets. Rosen's conclusion ties the understudied evolution of minor-character elaboration to the theory of literary character.

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Dramatic character is among the most long-standing and familiar of artistic phenomena. From the theatre of Dionysus in ancient Greece to the modern stage, William Storm's book delivers a wide-ranging view of how characters have been conceived at pivotal moments in history. Storm reaffirms dramatic character as not only ancestrally prominent but as a continuing focus of interest. He looks closely at how stage figures compare to fictional characters in books, dramatic media, and other visual arts. Emphasis is sustained throughout on fundamental questions of how theatrical characterization relates to dramatic structure, style, and genre. Extensive attention is given to how characters think and to aspects of agency, selfhood, and consciousness. As the only book to offer a long view of theatrical characterization across this historical span, Storm's dramaturgical and theoretical investigation examines topics that remain vital and pertinent for practitioners, scholars, students of theatre and literature, and general audiences.

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