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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39157717 Title: Initiating Dionysus : ritual and theatre in Aristophanes' Frogs Author: Ismene Lada-Richards Publisher: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0198149816 9780198149811 OCLC:39157717

  
  

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Initiating Dionysus : ritual and theatre in Aristophanes' Frogs

Author:	Ismene Lada-Richards
Publisher:	Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This book offers a challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Rather than seeking to recover the 'authorial' meaning of the Frogs, Dr. Lada-Richards attempts to reconstruct the wider spectrum of potential meanings that various segments of the play could have had in their own socio-cultural milieu. The key question that is explored is how membership in Greek fifth-century society would have shaped understanding of the play, with particular emphasis on the persona of Dionysus who, as the author argues, should not be viewed merely as a stock comic character but as inseparable from the complex, paradoxical figure of his mythical and ritual counterpart. In its combination of sophistication and complexity with clarity and elegance of style, the book should be of interest to the scholar as well as the student of Greek drama and culture, and its insights should appeal to anyone interested in the manifold ways that theatre, of any period and culture, remoulds the ritual sequences of the social frame to which it belongs.  Read more...
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Subjects	Aristophanes. -- Frogs. Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism. Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature. View all subjects
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