This highly detailed study examines both Greek tragedy and comedy and argues that all genres of Greek drama were aware of their own theatricality and developed sophisticated devices to hide their reflexivity and artifice. Dobrov suggests that this is particularly apparent in the characterisation of tragic and comic stage figures.
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This highly detailed study examines both Greek tragedy and comedy and argues that all genres of Greek drama were aware of their own theatricality and developed sophisticated devices to hide their reflexivity and artifice. Dobrov suggests that this is particularly apparent in the characterisation of tragic and comic stage figures.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, ix, 238 pp. Contents: Metatheater: Three Phenomenal Modes: Drama & Metafiction; Figures of Play: Surface Play & the Mise en Abyme; The Comic Contrafact; The Anatomy of Dramatic Fiction: Tragic Madness: Aias: Sophokles' Aias, Madness & the Show Within; Pentheus: Euripides' Bakkhai as a Contest of Fictions; The Anatomy of Dramatic Fiction: Comic Utopia: Bellerophontes: Euripides' Bellerophontes & Aristophanes Peace; Tereus: Sophokles' Tereus &Aristophanes' Birds; Herakles: Euripides' Peirithous & Aristophanes' Frogs; Conclusion.