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<b>"<i>Rude Talk in Athens</i> is brave, brilliant, and incredibly funny. There are loads of very specific characters, including Mark himself. It's the Mark Haskell Smith version of hanging out with Stanley Tucci and Anthony Bourdain, but in present day and ancient Greece. I agree with everything he says about comedy and have never read anything like it." ―Barry Sonnenfeld, Film Director and author of <i>Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker</i></b> <br> <br> In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for fame, money, and laughably large trophies. While the tragedies earned artistic respect, it was the comedies—the raunchy jokes, vulgar innuendo, outrageous invention, and barbed political commentary—that captured the imagination of the city. <br> The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production more inventive and outlandish than the last, as they tried to win first prize. Of these writers, only the work of Aristophanes has survived and it’s only through his plays that we know about his peers: Cratinus, the great lush; Eupolis, the copyca

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Author

Mark Haskell Smith -

Publisher

The Unnamed Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781951213381

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Biography