I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

- Billy Collins

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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Comedy: Reading List - 1

Katherine Lever: The Art of Greek Comedy

Kenneth Dover: Aristophanic Comedy

Rosemary Harriott: Aristophanes, Poet and Dramatist

Erich Segal: Roman Comedy

Erich Segal: Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus

Vernant and Detienne: Cunning Intelligence in Ancient Greece

Aristotle: Poetics

Arthur W. Pickard-Cambridge: Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy
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2 comments:

  1. Prashant ChaturvediJuly 14, 2010 at 10:36 AM

    Greek Comedy? I never knew they could be humorous too :p

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  2. DJuly 15, 2010 at 3:24 AM

    The first comedy plays were just strings of Greek abuses =D I think they'd still run to full-houses.

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