Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Contents vii
4. Ancient Comedy and Receptions
5. Exchanging Metaphors in Cratinus and Aristophanes 3
6. Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression 13
7. Slipping One In: The Introduction of Obscene Lexical Items in Aristophanes 29
8. Ancient Comedy and Historiography: Aristophanes Meets Herodotus 51
9. Epiphany of a Serious Dionysus in a Comedy? 62
10. Toponimi e immaginario sessuale nella Lisistrata di Aristofane 69
11. Dionysus’ Choice in Frogs and Aristophanes’ Paraenetic Pedigree 82
12. Two Phaedras: Euripides and Aristophanes? 94
13. Plato’s Aristophanes 132
14. Menander’s Samia and the Phaedra Theme 167
15. Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Comedy: Menander’s Kolax in Three Roman Receptions 180
16. Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus: Gnaeus Naevius as a Latin Aristophanes? 203
17. Plautus und die Techniken des Improvisationstheaters 223
18. Lege dura vivont mulieres: Syra’s Complaint about the Sexual Double Standard 235
19. “Letting It All Hang Out”: Lucian, Old Comedy and the Origins of Roman Satire 259
20. Old Comedy at Rome: Rhetorical Model and Satirical Problem 275
21. Inventing Everything: Comic and Performative Sources of Graeco-Roman Fiction 309
22. From Drama to Narrative: The Reception of Comedy in the Ancient Novel 322
23. Greek Culture as Images: Menander’s Comedies and Their Patrons in the Roman West and the Greek East 346
24. The Evidence of the Zeugma Synaristosai Mosaic for Imperial Performance of Menander 366
25. Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Receptions
26. Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus’ Amphitryon 377
27. Aristofane mascherato: Un secolo (1415–1504) di fortuna e ‘sfortuna’ 397
28. L’influence de Plaute sur la définition du comique chez Giovanni Pontano 410
29. Strepsiades’ Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes’ Clouds 427
30. The Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell’Arte 447
31. Aristophanes in England, 1500–1660 479
32. Exaggerating Terence’s Andria: Steele’s The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy’s The Perjur’d Devotee and Terentian Criticism 503
33. Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text 537
34. Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition 565
35. Jacob Masen’s Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater 580
36. La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española 606
37. Reform: A Farce Modernised from Aristophanes (1792) 654
38. Modern Receptions
39. Polos und Polis: Aristophanes’ Vögel und deren Bearbeitung durch Goethe, Karl Kraus und Peter Hacks 699
40. Translations of Aristophanes in Italy in the 19^th century 727
41. Close Encounters of the Comic Kind: Aristophanes’ Frogs and Lysistrata in Athenian Mythological Burlesque of the 1880s 747
42. Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys from Syracuse: Shakespeare Made Plautine 762
43. She (Don’t) Gotta Have It: African-American Reception of Lysistrata 786
44. „Es ist, um aus der Rüstung zu fahren!“: Erich Kästners Adaption der Acharner des Aristophanes 797
45. Lysistrata on Broadway 807
46. “Attend, O Muse, Our Holy Dances and Come to Rejoice in Our Songs”: The Reception of Aristophanes in the Modern Musical Theater 824
47. Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s–1960s 849
48. Cultural Politics and Aesthetic Debate in Two Modern Versions of Aristophanes’ Frogs 871
49. Ionesco’s New and Old Comedy 887
50. Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, The Metamorphoses of Lysistrata 894
51. Who’s Afraid of Aristophanes? The Troubled Life of Ancient Comedy in 20th-Century Italy 945
52. Aristophanes in Israel: Comedy, Theatricality, Politics 964
53. Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans 984
54. The Maculate Muse in the 21^st Century: Recent Adaptations of Aristophanes’ Peace and Ecclesiazusae 1000
55. Eschyle et Euripide entre tragédie et comédie: polyphonie et interprétation dans quelques traductions récentes des Grenouilles d’Aristophane 1022
56. Business as Usual: Plautus’ Menaechmi in English Translation 1040
57. Index of Names and Subjects 1063