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In antiquity, comedy was one genre of drama.
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Cf. Plato, Theaet. 173d. Also see S.I. Radzig. History Ancient Greek Literature (Istoriya drevnegrecheskoy literatury). Moscow: Vysshaya shkola, 1982 (5th ed.; first publ. 1940), p. 275 sqq.
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Ian C. Storey. Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 41.
Cf. Archilochus, fr. 41–44, 46 et al. West. Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. Ed. by M. L. West. Vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989 (2nd ed.), pp. 18–20.
See also M. L. West. Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1974, pp. 22–39; Die griechische Literatur in Text und Darstellung. Bd. 1: Archaische Periode. Ed. by Joachim Latacz. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1991, pp. 240–47.
For a discussion of Aristophanes’s comedy, see Lane Cooper. An Aristotelian Theory of Comedy. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922;
Elder Olson. The Theory of Comedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968, pp. 45–47;
Northrop Frye. The Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, vol. 22. Ed. by Robert D. Denham. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2006, p. 49.
See Richard L. Hunter. New Comedy of Greece and Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
R. W. Corrigan. Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman. New York, NY: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1987, pp. 241–42.
See Peter Holland. The Ornament of Action: Text and Performance in Restoration Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
N. Frye. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 72;
N. Frye. The Anatomy of Criticism, pp. 151–52; Elder Olson. The Theory of Comedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968;
Morton Gurewitch. Comedy: The Irrational Vision. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975, pp. 43–44;
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Ben Jonson. Every Man in His Humour, Induction, 247–70. In Ben Jonson. Ed. by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1927, vol. III, p. 437.
David Konstan. Greek Comedy and Ideology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 156–64.
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Nikulin, D. (2014). The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: On the Ancient Origins of Comedy. In: Comedy, Seriously. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415141_1
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