 | The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis Subjects: Aristophanes -- Political and social views; Athens (Greece) -- Social conditions; Literature and society -- Greece; Social problems in literature; Drama -- Chorus (Greek drama); Intertextuality; Comedy; Reading closely each of Aristophanes' comedies, Thomas K. Hubbard here demonstrates that, far from being a digression or a relic of long-forgotten rituals, the parabasis provides a critical link between the identities of the poet, chorus, and protagonist, and between the play and its audience. Thomas K. Hubbard is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. |
