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Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre - rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy - serve their needs? Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control.

Theater --- Dictatorship in literature --- Political aspects --- Théâtre --- Despotisme --- Théâtre politique grec. --- Histoire. --- Aspect politique

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Greek drama (Comedy) --- Political plays, Greek --- Comédie grecque --- Théâtre politique grec --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Control (Psychology) in literature --- Social control in literature --- Ridicule in literature --- Control (Psychology) in literature. --- Ridicule in literature. --- Social control in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Comédie grecque --- Théâtre politique grec --- Greek drama (Comedy) - History and criticism --- Political plays, Greek - History and criticism

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Politics and literature --- Political plays, Greek --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Democracy in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Politique et littérature --- Théâtre politique grec --- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature --- Démocratie dans la littérature --- Tragédie --- History --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Sophocles --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Democracy in literature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- -Politics and literature --- -Tragedy --- Drama --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Greek political plays --- Greek drama --- History and criticism --- -Political aspects --- -Sophocles --- -Sophocle --- Sófocles --- Sofoklis --- Sofokl --- Sūfūklīs --- Sofokles --- Sūtmūklīs --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofokŭl --- סופוקלס --- سوفوكليس --- Σοφοκλῆς --- Criticism and interpretation --- Homes and haunts --- -Athens (Greece) --- -Politics and government --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Sophocle --- Sofocles --- Politique et littérature --- Théâtre politique grec --- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature --- Démocratie dans la littérature --- Tragédie --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Tragedy --- Political aspects --- Intellectual life. --- Sophocles,

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Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on ordinary citizens who marry for love--are most often thought of as entertainments devoid of political content. Against the view, Susan Lape argues that Menander's comedies are explicitly political. His nationalistic comedies regularly conclude by performing the laws of democratic citizen marriage, thereby promising the generation of new citizens. His transnational comedies, on the other hand, defend polis life against the impinging Hellenistic kingdoms, either by transforming their representatives into proper citizen-husbands or by rendering them ridiculous, romantic losers who pose no real threat to citizen or city. In elaborating the political work of romantic comedy, this book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology. Paradoxically, by championing democratic culture against various Hellenistic outsiders, comedy often resists the internal status and gender boundaries on which democratic culture was based. Comedy's ability to reproduce democratic culture in scandalous fashion exposes the logic of civic inclusion produced by the contradictions in Athens's desperately politicized gender system. Combining careful textual analysis with an understanding of the context in which Menander wrote, Reproducing Athens profoundly changes the way we read his plays and deepens our understanding of Athenian democratic culture.

Blijspel --- Comedie --- Comedy --- Comédie --- Democracy in literature --- Democratie in de literatuur --- Démocratie dans la littérature --- Komedie --- Politics and literature --- Political plays, Greek --- Democracy in literature. --- Politique et littérature --- Théâtre politique grec --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Menander, --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- In literature --- Politics and government --- Dans la littérature --- Politique et gouvernement --- Comedy. --- Knowledge --- Political and social views. --- Intellectual life. --- Politics and government. --- In literature. --- Politique et littérature --- Théâtre politique grec --- Démocratie dans la littérature --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Dans la littérature --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- Menandros, --- Athens, Menander of --- Menandro, --- Ménandre, --- Menandorosu, --- מינאנדרוס --- Aḟiny (Greece) --- Atene (Greece) --- Atʻēnkʻ (Greece) --- Ateny (Greece) --- Athen (Greece) --- Athēna (Greece) --- Athēnai (Greece) --- Athènes (Greece) --- Athinai (Greece) --- Athīnā (Greece) --- Drama --- Wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Menander of Athens --- Political and social views --- Greece --- Political plays [Greek ] --- Intellectual life --- Αθήνα (Greece) --- Менандр, --- Menander --- Menander Comicus --- Menandro --- Ménandre --- Menandros