Frogs Flashcards
(14 cards)
“The primary function of the play isn’t literary criticism but political action.”
Bettendorf
“Frogs is generally reckoned to be the finest of Aristophanes’ surviving plays.”
Cartledge
“Comedy tends to take normal life situations and suspend and subvert them.”
Cartledge
“…it does seems pretty clear that the contribution of Aristophanes to comedy was overwhelming and unique, that it was he above all who shaped the genre of Old Comedy.”
Cartledge
“Aristophanic comedy was an inimitable cocktail.”
Cartledge
“Past period of security and prosperity contrasted with present discomfort and insecurity.”
Dover
“Everyone who was recorded as well known in historical sources is ridiculed or attacked in comedy.”
Dover
“The idea of the festival is inseparable from Greek comedy.”
Edith Hall
“The traits given to Aeschylus and Euripides are amusing, and the contrast between them makes comic sense, but they are without value as an index of how either Aristophanes or his contemporaries really regarded them.”
Kovaks
“The core of the ancient comic experience was the chorus and the core of the comic chorus was the parabasis.”
C. W. Marshall
“Aeschylus’ victory is a rejection of the new life-style and a return to the old moral centre.”
Redfield
“Farce or fantasy might be more appropriate descriptions of what Aristophanes created.”
Storey/Allen
The plot of comedies is not intricate like tragedies but based on the exploration of a “great idea, the more bizarre the better.”
Storey/Allen
“There is no internal evidence from the plays themselves about the religious nature of the festival, only external.”
Taplin
