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This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. Earlier authors like Aristophanes wrote in a completely different style: raucous, bawdy, fantastical, and vaudeville. Menander (of whom Plutarch said, 'what other reason would a cultivated man have to go to the theatre?') and his contemporaries presented civilised, urban comedies based on the themes of quiet domestic dramas.Th

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Author

Erich Segal

Publisher

Oxford University Press on Demand

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198721925

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25