Social issues in Aristophanes comedy

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Social issues in Aristophanes comedy

Introduction

Comedy was derived from a Greek word komoidia , which means song Aristotle argued that comedy was ultimately developed from song . With the introduction of comedy people did not grasp it quickly simply because no one took it seriously . Aristophanes is considered the best playwright of comedies in the classical literary period because of his comedies that are extant . Aristophanes , Eupolis , and Cratinus were among the best playwrights who ancient critics recognized for their literary works

. Aristophanes ' plays are the only surviving samples of the literary genre conventionally referred to as old comedy . Old comedies were characteristic of al issues touching in the society and real personalities . New Comedy transcended al issues to generalized contexts together with stock characters . The move was because playwrights had internalized the perspectives of the people 's cultures after changes . The Old Comedy , which was a specialty of Aristophanes had sophisticated and subtle dramatic form that adopted many approaches as far as entertainment and humor was concerned (Silk 78

According to Andreas (92 , Aristophanes comedies , which gratify the Old Comedy genre , can be analyzed in three distinct characteristics , namely festivity , complexity , and ality . The structure of the play espouses what is known as complexity in the plays of Aristophanes and thus treated differently as a separate section . As far as the comedy plot is concerned , there is the common trait that it connotes the comic poet 's view of the society but not like the...