Scholarship Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Alan Sommerstein - Comedy
A
“At Athens, comedy was probably political from its very beginnings.”
2
Q
Storey / Allen - Comedy (Aristophanes)
A
“Farce or fantasy might be more appropriate descriptions of what Aristophanes created.”
3
Q
C.W. Marshall - Comedy
A
“The core of the ancient comic experience was the chorus, and the core of the comic chorus was the parabasis.”
4
Q
Burian - Comedy / Tragedy
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“Tragedy is much easier to write than comedy, in which everything has to be invented afresh.”
5
Q
Fagles - Tragedy
A
“Oedipus is his own destroyer.”
6
Q
Stuttard - Tragedy
A
“Bacchae is one of Euripides’ most disturbing plays.”
7
Q
Edith Hall - Tragedy
A
“The manner in which aristocrats treat their subordinates is an important means by which their characters are ‘tested’ in tragedy.”
