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		Comedy, in contrast, portrays a conflict or agon (Classical Greek) between a young hero and an older authority, a confrontation described by Northrop Frye as a struggle between a "society of youth" and a "society of the old".
		The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek ÎºÏÎ¼á¿³Î´Î¯Î±, which is a compound either of Îºá¿¶Î¼Î¿Ï (revel) or ÎºÏÎ¼Î· (village) and á¾ Î´Î® (singing): it is possible that Îºá¿¶Î¼Î¿Ï itself is derived from ÎºÏÎ¼Î·, and originally meant a village revel.
		Comedy, in contrast, portrays a hero who is both young and relatively powerless, who is in conflict or agon (Classical Greek á¼Î³ÏÎ½) against an older moral or social authority, a confrontation described by Northrop Frye as a struggle between a "society of youth" and a "society of the old".
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 345 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As the old Attic comedy was the offspring of the political and social vigour and freedom of the age during which it flourished, it naturally declined and ceased with the decline and overthrow of the freedom and vigour which were necessary for its development.
		It was replaced by a comedy of a somewhat different stjde, which was known as the Middle comedy, the age of which lasted from the end of the Peloponnesian war to the overthrow of liberty by Philip of Macedon.
		The comedy of this period accordingly found its materials in satirizing classes of people instead of individuals, in criticising the systems and merits of philosophers and literary men, and in parodies of the compositions of living and earlier poets, and travesties of mythological subjects.
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	Ancient Greek comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Comedy is defined by Plato as the generic name for all exhibitions which have a tendency to excite laughter.
		The old comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Kleisthenes, about 510 BCE, arose, as we have seen, from the obscene jests of Dionysian revellers, to which was given a political application.
		The period of the middle comedy extended from the close of the Peloponnesian war to the enthralment of Athens by Philip of Macedon; that is to say, from the closing years of the fifth to nearly the middle of the fourth century BCE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_comedy (1323 words)

	INTRODUCTION TO OLD COMEDY
		Middle Comedy, which first appears in the early fourth century, is characterized by a marked decline in the importance of the chorus and the absence of political satire.
		In New Comedy the absence of the chorus except for a rare non-essential chorus) is notable.
		Although Old Comedy occasionally employs the tragic structure in which stasima act as dividers between episodes, it tends to favor the construction (found in early tragedy) wherein the stanzas of choral songs are separated one from another by interspersed dialogue, thus closely integrating choral song and dialogue.
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	Origin of Attic Comedy
		Attic vase-paintings, which make it clear that organized comedy had existed at Athens at least a century before its official entry into the City Dionysia in 486, show that it was primarily, if not wholly, choral there until well into the fifth century.
		Hubbard, T.K. The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual.
		We shall argue that Attic Comedy, as we know it from Aristophanes, is constructed in the framework of what was already a drama, a folk play; and that behind this folk play lay a still earlier phase, in which its action was dramatically presented in religious ritual.
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		Comedy, for Bowie, belongs in a context defined by public and religious festivals; it was not an instrument of personal persuasion: the "function [of Aristophanes' comedies] in the city was not principally for one man to lecture the audience," rather "they were part of [the] displaying of the city to itself" (10).
		Comedy did not apparently do much to ease their worries or lift their spirits, and it certainly did little, even temporarily, to make them adjust their opinions on what was good or bad for the city.
		Yet he fails to support his insightful readings of the mythical and ritual parallels in comedy with a examination of the generic characteristics of comedy, or, more importantly still, with a satisfactory discussion of the place of myth and ritual in the minds of Aristophanes' contemporary audience.
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	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 151 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The beginnings of the Attic comedy, like those of the Attic tragedy, are associated with the deme of Icaria, known to have been the chief seat of the worship of DiSnysus in Attica.
		Comedy did not become, in the proper sense, a part of literature until it had found welcome and consideration at Athens in the time of the Persian wars; until its form had been moulded on the finished outlines of tragedy; and until, finally, it had received from the State the same recognition as tragedy.
		The masters of the Old Comedy are usually held to be Cratinus and his younger contemporaries, Eup51is and Aristophanes.
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	Diphilus
		Diphilus, of Sinope, poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander (342-291 BC).
		He is said to have written 100 comedies, the titles of fifty of which are preserved.
		The style of Diphilus was simple and natural, and his language on the whole good Attic; he paid great attention to vérsification, and was supposed to have invented a peculiar kind of metre.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Diphilus.html (238 words)

	Table of Contents: Aristophanes, 2
		Greek comedy evolved alongside tragedy at the festival competitions and became equally implicated in its own historical moment but, unlike tragedy, it was not constrained to work with mythological material, nor did it need to preserve a consistent and unbroken dramatic illusion.
		Indeed, perhaps the central dynamic of Aristophanic comedy is precisely the tension that arises between the poet's voice, with its didactic claims and autobiographical pretenses, and the fictional demands of the genre itself.
		In its earliest stages comedy, like tragedy, was as much a spectacle of music and dance as of spoken verse, and the chorus was clearly an area in which costume, song, and gesture could be combined to create a theatrical extravaganza.
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		The word comedy is from komoidia, derived from komos, a procession of revellers singing and dancing.
		Comedy may have developed from the chorus of men who accompanied the phallic symbols in the Dionysiac festival processions at Athens, but the date at which this evolved into drama is uncertain.
		comedies that had been previously staged only once at competitions were allowed to be produced again.
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	Classical Greece : ATTIC COMEDY was a powerful vehicle for the expression of
		ATTIC COMEDY was a powerful vehicle for the expression of opinion; and most of the comedies of Aristophanes turned either upon political occurrences, or upon some subject which excited the interest of the Athenian public.
		He wrote upwards of 100 comedies, of which only fragments remain; and the unanimous praise of posterity awakens our regret for the loss of one of the most elegant writers of antiquity.
		The comedies, indeed, of Plautus and Terence may give us a general notion of the New Comedy of the Greeks, from which they were confessedly drawn; but there is good reason to suppose that the works even of the latter Roman writer fell far short of the wit and elegance of Menander.
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	Phrynichus - LoveToKnow 1911
		A poet of the Old Attic comedy and a contemporary of Aristophanes.
		His first comedy was exhibited in 429 B.C. He composed ten plays, of which the Solitary (Movarpoxos) was exhibited in 414 along with the Birds of Aristophanes and gained the third prize.
		As models of Attic style Phrynichus assigned the highest place to Plato, Demosthenes and Aeschines the Socratic.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Phrynichus (551 words)

	Comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Comedy is judged according to a person’s taste.
		Vaudeville - comedy performed in theatres that declined as television ownership increased.
		Comedy Central - A television channel devoted strictly to comedy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comedy (1232 words)

	Attic Salt Theatre Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This engaging fable is sure to keep both children and adults laughing as they find themselves empathizing with a hapless sultan, his too-smart servant and a poor man who knows the secret to keeping those around him happy.
		The members of Attic Salt Theatre Company are committed to the ideals that theater naturally brings into a classroom, such as multi-culturalism and multi-intelligence.
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	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.05.12
		It is simply reasonable to assume that these comic figures who wear the costume of Attic actors from 400 onwards have something directly to do with Attic comedy, especially when they occur on vases influenced by Attic red-figure.
		Then the comedy is most easily considered to be about two different producers trying to put on a tragic drama, with Purrias trying to declaim tragically on his upturned basket; whether the tragic Aegisthos is an artist's license or they could play a tragic character in tragic clothes on a comic stage, I know not.
		The Attic iambic on the NY Goose play of ca.400 is most notably a sign of Attic influence, but with a local Tarentine "h".
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1993/04.05.12.html (1856 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.33
		A valuable upshot of all this is certainly the conclusion that, first, Greek comic genres of all times and places overlap significantly and that, second, Attic comedy of the 5th cent., the hallmark of which was political satire, represents a development specific to Attica and therefore should be regarded as an exception.
		S.'s last chapter deals with Attic Old Comedy, focusing on two questions: first, how this exceptional form emerged from the all-Greek comedy of social types and, second, how the mockery of real citizens is to be reconciled with the concept of asymmetric laughter to be directed only against atimoi.
		Its greatest merits are probably to put Attic comedy back in the context of local forms of comedies all over Greece and to try to explain laughter and its functions in historical/sociological terms.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-05-33.html (3176 words)

	New Comedy
		With these exceptions the characters were very much as in the middle comedy, but with the addition of the mercenary soldier newly returned from the wars, with noisy tongue, full purse and empty head.
		There can be little doubt that the new comedy represented faithfully the most salient features of Athenian society; but it made no attempt to improve it, presenting only in attractive colors the lax morality of the age.
		It is the only example of New Comedy to have survived in its entirety.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/bates004.html (244 words)

	Ancient Greece - Greek Drama - free Suite101.com course
		There was usually one comedy staged at the end of each day during the Festival of Dionysus.
		Unlike tragedy, the subject matter of the comedies was usually contemporary.
		Comedies were often used as a platform for attacking and ridiculing politicians.
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	Comedy Zone Comedy School
		We concentrate on two main areas, comedy writing and stage presence (character development, delivery and comedic timing.) The classes are fun and interactive and guaranteed to make you "funnier" by the end of six weeks.
		Comedy ensued and he hosted the Attic’s Comedy Zone for four years while developing his writing skills on topical events.
		He then dipped into a number of comedy writing avenues, becoming a member of Jay Leno’s "fax team," contributing to AM Mayhem on the Cartoon Network, "punching" movie scripts, co-writing a screenplay, and recently completing a novel.
	www.standupstuff.com /ComedySchool.htm (788 words)

	Isaiah
		This was not a matter of course in the case of Attic drama.
		Attic Drama: For us, the best-known dramatic texts belonging to the ancient world are those of Attic drama.
		Attic comedy is of interest for Deutero-Isaiah because it offers a point of comparison for the artisan scenes and the "idol production,” for the caricature of a procession in 46:17, and for the description of Jerusalem's drunkenness in 51:17-23.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/bible/bibleisaiahR.htm (5610 words)

	Pherecrates - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		PHERECRATES, Greek poet of the Old Attic Comedy, was a contemporary of Cratinus, Crates and Aristophanes.
		Like Crates, whom he imitated, he abandoned personal satire for more general themes, although in some of the fragments of his plays we find him attacking Alcibiades and others.
		He was especially famed for his inventive imagination, and the elegance and purity of his diction are attested by the epithet arruceeraror (most Attic) applied to him by Athenaeus and the sophist Phrynichus.
	18.1911encyclopedia.org /Pherecrates (177 words)

	What Happened to Deus ex Machina after Euripides?
		The action in tragedy must have as much likelihood as to make the audience strongly involved in it so that they can share the protagonists' passion and pathos, and for that purpose strictly logical development of the plot is needed, as Aristotle analyzed with his terms "probability and necessity" (1452a20).
		On the contrary in comedy the audience rather enjoy loiterings and breaks that release their mind from time to time from dramatic tension and refresh it for another turn of events.
		The comedy writers most likely scooped up the device, dismantled it into dramaturgical ingredients and reintegrated them into their plays in the form of a final twist of their plots, followed by a happy ending.
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	Epicharmus
		In these plays Comedy for the first time took formal shape, since he and his contemporary Phormis were the first to use plots (muthoi) and regular dialogues.
		In a certain sense, therefore, he may be regarded as the Cervantes of Greece, for as the latter laughed mediaeval chivalry to death, so Epicharmus was the first to make the great ones of the Heroic Age the butts of popular ridicule.
		But as Epicharmus is said to have created the character of the conventional parasite in his Elpis, he was also the founder of the comedy of manners as well as of the burlesque.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/ridgeway004.html (591 words)

	Article: The Ritual Origin of Theatre - A Scientific Theory or Theatrical Ideology?
		Cornford is aware that no Aristophanes' comedy features a marriage ceremony in the literal sense of the term, and that he uses "marriage" in a metaphorical sense.
		In his search for the origins of Attic comedy, Cornford is not concerned with the question of origins of the theatre medium at all.
		Since popular comedy was created not later than the beginning of the sixth century BC, it follows that both Attic comedy and tragedy could have borrowed the theatre medium from this early theatrical form.
	www.rtjournal.org /vol_2/no_1/rozik.html (3200 words)

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	Cratinus’ Pytine
		Aristophanes, in his Knights, told that old Cratinus was a good poet in past times, but that he wasn't able to write comedies anymore and that Athenians should assure him a place in the Prytanaion (like the national heroes), where he could drink gratis (Cratinus' love for wine was well known).
		Comedy brings Cratinus to a trial, because - she says - the old drunkard poet betrays her and plays around with the young Wines (represented as young boys; homosexuality was common habit).
		It is depicted that Comedy is his wife, and that she wants to abandon the marriage with him, and that is declared to her that the case against him for wronging would be discussed by the court, that
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Stage/9407/CratinusPytine.htm (1739 words)

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