1st Edition
by Alan H. Sommerstein (Editor)
Available online or as a 3-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a comprehensive and accessible reference covering all of Greek comedy and its reception from antiquity to the present.
- Features the work of nearly 200 established and rising scholars from around the world
- Contains more than 1300 entries, organized in A-Z format, with helpful cross-references and an index of authors and plays
- Provides extensive and detailed coverage of the work of those dramatists who have no complete plays extant
- Explores a wide range of topics, including the varieties and phases of the genre; the authors and their major plays; composition and technique; the relationship between comedy and society; the preservation and transmission of comic texts; responses to Greek comedy by artists from Plato to Picasso and beyond; and modern methods of literary analysis and criticism
