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Nicely printed, title page in red and black. Some browning to spine and edges of wraps. Faint soiling to wraps. ; Ii+116pp. ; 116 pages
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of storage. 255pp. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival told by a racontaire extraordinaire who had been reviewing these shows for over fifteen years, He tells of the gossip, the intrigue, the celebrities, the critics, the grand occasions and the tragedies off-stage amongst a vast range of appearances.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 78 p. Pages untrimmed and unopened. Casina is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Many of the characters in Casina are stock characters of Greek and Roman comedy, such as the old man chasing after the young slave woman. This is the first Turkish Edition of Casina by Plautus. It's translated by Nurullah Ataç, (1898-1957),(translated from French to Turkish), who was a Turkish writer, translator, poet and literary critic. He was born on 21 August 1898 in Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire. He studied in the Galatasaray High School and the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. After his father's death in 1921, he began serving as a French teacher in various schools in Istanbul. After the proclamation of the Turkish Republic he also served in Ankara and Adana. In 1926 he married to Leman Ataç. He was appointed as an official translator of the presidency. He also served as the chairman of the media branch of the Turkish Language Association. Ataç is known as a productive writer with an excellent memory. He translated more than 70 books to Turkish. He wrote essays and poems using modern Turkish words. He was a champion of inverted sentences in his writings In his critics he was often relentless. OCLC has six copies: 32675443. First Turkish Edition.
180p. + Color frontis of Brunet reciting his puns, satires, and jokes. Some age stained. Edges uncut. Early full vellum binding. Ragueneau de La Chainaye (1777-1850) was a popular comic and dramatic stage performer who kept his humor and head throughout the French Revolution. This is apparently the true first edition. Quite scarce. No examples of this edition are located by OCLC in the U.S. FR-VOYAGE 3RD FL
Very Good English Modern cloth bdg. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 152 p. First and only edition. Bir günün beyligi. Komedi, 3 perde. Translated by Ali Süha Delilbasi.
Faint long crease through front wrap. Light wear to bottom corner. Very light Pencil marginalia on a few pages. ; Contents: Myth, parody, and comic plots / H. -G. Nesselrath --The fabrication of comic illusion / N. W. Slater --The poet's voice in the evolution of dramatic dialogism / G. W. Dobrov --The continuity of the chorus in fourth-century attic comedy / K. S. Rothwell --Plato comicus and the evolution of Greek comedy / R. M. Rosen --The maculate music / G. W. Dobrov --Beyond Aristophanes / J. Henderson. ; American Philological Association American Classical Studies Series; 232 pages; This collection of essays is devoted to the most important changes--in theme, language, structure, style, and production--that characterize the transformation of Athenian Comedy from the mid-fifth through the fourth century.
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with unmarked blue cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks to corners and a little foxing. 223pp. Autobiography of Wilfred Pickles, radio personality from Halifax who ran the long-running show 'Have A Go'.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Pocket has been removed from ffep causing some damage. Else VG. ; Greeks divided the world into Greece vs. The land of foreigners, into Hellenes vs. Barbarians, seeing their country as a bastion of culture, learning, and military might surrounded by a sea of the uncivilized. Long shows how comedy expressed the Greek feeling of superiority over the barbarians, how it dealt with the so-called barbarian-Hellene antithesis. The result is a contribution to the study of ancient Greek comedy—both the comedy itself and the beliefs, the prejudices, the limitations, and the variety in the society from which the plays emerged. The comedians’ responses to the barbarians ranged from idealization to neutrality to raw racism. Although contemptuous of barbarians, the Hellenes could not keep elements of foreign culture from entering their own. Long’s major contention is that the Greek reaction to Oriental and other foreign influence can be seen in the treatment of barbarians in Greek comedy. ; 240 pages
Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor Foxing to DJ. ; Greeks divided the world into Greece vs. The land of foreigners, into Hellenes vs. Barbarians, seeing their country as a bastion of culture, learning, and military might surrounded by a sea of the uncivilized. Long shows how comedy expressed the Greek feeling of superiority over the barbarians, how it dealt with the so-called barbarian-Hellene antithesis. The result is a contribution to the study of ancient Greek comedy—both the comedy itself and the beliefs, the prejudices, the limitations, and the variety in the society from which the plays emerged. The comedians’ responses to the barbarians ranged from idealization to neutrality to raw racism. Although contemptuous of barbarians, the Hellenes could not keep elements of foreign culture from entering their own. Long’s major contention is that the Greek reaction to Oriental and other foreign influence can be seen in the treatment of barbarians in Greek comedy. ; 240 pages
Scholars' name to halftitle (Mark Golden). Very light shelfwear. ; In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries). Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus) , transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows how Plautus diminished the traditional importance of love and replaced it with a new major theme: 'heroic badness,' especially embodied in the rogue slave (ancestor of the impudent servant, valet, or maid). Anderson then examines the unique verbal texture of Plautus' drama and demonstrates his revolt against realism, his drive to have his characters defy everyday circumstances and pit their intrepid linguistic wit against social order, their Roman extravagant impudence against Greek self-control. Finally, Anderson explores the special form of metatheatre that we admire in Plautus, by which he undermines the assumptions of his Greek models' and replaces them with a new, confident Roman comedy. ; Robson Classical Lectures; 194 pages
Faint creasing to spine. Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries). Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus) , transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows how Plautus diminished the traditional importance of love and replaced it with a new major theme: 'heroic badness,' especially embodied in the rogue slave (ancestor of the impudent servant, valet, or maid). Anderson then examines the unique verbal texture of Plautus' drama and demonstrates his revolt against realism, his drive to have his characters defy everyday circumstances and pit their intrepid linguistic wit against social order, their Roman extravagant impudence against Greek self-control. Finally, Anderson explores the special form of metatheatre that we admire in Plautus, by which he undermines the assumptions of his Greek models' and replaces them with a new, confident Roman comedy. ; Robson Classical Lectures; 194 pages
1st edition. 4to, 87 pages, illustrated by Frank Dickens. Good condition in glazed pictorial boards. Fly title page has been removed. 40520. eng
123p. Original cloth backed decorated paper binding, showing a large red balloon rising in front of a people filled windows. Binding edges worn, otherwise a nice copy. Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. LIT 8
Foxing and browning to endpapers. Rear hinge just starting to crack and weaken. Pages lightly browned. Blank leaves interleaved into latin text with some pencil notes to blank pages. Light foxing passim. Top of spine has a few small tears and fraying. Minor edgewear to corners. Possibly rebound in blue boards? ; Latin Text with German notes and introduction. ; 289 pages
Of All Things - An album of work of Paul Simmel, one of Germany's most successful cartoonists and caricaturists of the 1920s. 64 pages. Text in German. Dirt marks on covers. Name in ink on title page.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight rubbing to spine and no bumping to corners. 93pp. Starting with Sunday Night at the London Palladium, this lovely condition book covers all the stars and the shows at the end of the 1950s on Associated Television. Very well illustrated in black & white.
Top corners lightly bumped. Else fine. DJ spine a little discolored. Light edgewear with 1 small tear (1 cm). DJ is price-clipped. ; 280 pages; Professor Dover's book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B. C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends. Particular emphasis is laid on his indifference-positively assisted by the physical limitations of the Greek theatre and the conditions of the Athenian dramatic festivals-to the maintenance of continuous "dramatic illusion" or to the provision of a dramatic event with the antecedents and consequences which might logically be expected. More importance is attached to Aristophanes' adoption of popular attitudes and beliefs, to his creation of uninhibited characters with which the spectators could identify themselves, and to his acceptance of the comic poet's traditional role as a mordant but jocular critic of morals, than to any identifiable and consistent elements in his political standpoint.
Creasing to spine. Chipping to spine ends. Tear to base of spine cover (3 cm). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else VG. ; 280 pages; Professor Dover's book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B. C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends. Particular emphasis is laid on his indifference-positively assisted by the physical limitations of the Greek theatre and the conditions of the Athenian dramatic festivals-to the maintenance of continuous "dramatic illusion" or to the provision of a dramatic event with the antecedents and consequences which might logically be expected. More importance is attached to Aristophanes' adoption of popular attitudes and beliefs, to his creation of uninhibited characters with which the spectators could identify themselves, and to his acceptance of the comic poet's traditional role as a mordant but jocular critic of morals, than to any identifiable and consistent elements in his political standpoint.
light foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's name to ffep (Philippa Goold née Forder). Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 280 pages; Professor Dover's book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B. C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends. Particular emphasis is laid on his indifference-positively assisted by the physical limitations of the Greek theatre and the conditions of the Athenian dramatic festivals-to the maintenance of continuous "dramatic illusion" or to the provision of a dramatic event with the antecedents and consequences which might logically be expected. More importance is attached to Aristophanes' adoption of popular attitudes and beliefs, to his creation of uninhibited characters with which the spectators could identify themselves, and to his acceptance of the comic poet's traditional role as a mordant but jocular critic of morals, than to any identifiable and consistent elements in his political standpoint.
Spine slightly sunned. Very minor shelfwear. ; 280 pages; Professor Dover's book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B. C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends. Particular emphasis is laid on his indifference-positively assisted by the physical limitations of the Greek theatre and the conditions of the Athenian dramatic festivals-to the maintenance of continuous "dramatic illusion" or to the provision of a dramatic event with the antecedents and consequences which might logically be expected. More importance is attached to Aristophanes' adoption of popular attitudes and beliefs, to his creation of uninhibited characters with which the spectators could identify themselves, and to his acceptance of the comic poet's traditional role as a mordant but jocular critic of morals, than to any identifiable and consistent elements in his political standpoint.
Scholar's name to ffep. Pages tanned. Light bump to base of spine. DJ is price-clipped. DJ has chipping and a couple of small tears. ; English Introduction and Extensive Commentary with Greek Text. ; 356 pages
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Very light shelfwear. DJ has chipping and a few small tears with tiny loss to head of spine. ; English Introduction and Extensive Commentary with Greek Text. ; 356 pages
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has edgewear with a couple of small tears. ; English Introduction and Extensive Commentary with Greek Text. ; 356 pages
Sticker damage to rear wrap over barcode. Else VG. ; Penguin Classics; 7.0 X 4.3 X 0.5 inches; 224 pages
Scholars' name to halftitle (Mark Golden). Light shelfwear. ; The Comedies of Aristophanes: Vol. 5; 196 pages