Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century (Classical Presences)

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Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
1: Introduction
	What Is Reception, What Is Aristophanes, What Is Britain?
	Aristophanes So Far
	Aristophanes in the Empire?
	The Early-Modern Aristophanes in Britain
	Nineteenth-Century Politics: Reform, Reaction, and Radicalism
	Theatre Reform
	The British Historians’ Aristophanes, from Gillies to Grote
	The German Aristophanes
2: Out of Exile: Thomas Mitchell and John Hookham Frere
	Thomas Mitchell
	John Hookham Frere
3: Swine before Pearls: Aristophanes at Play in Percy Shelley’s Swellfoot the Tyrant
4: Aristophanes Burlesqued: J.R. Planché’s Birds and Victorian Popular Theatre
	The Genre of Burlesque
	James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)
	‘From Aristophanes She Takes Her Birth’
	Re-interpreting The Birds
	Spectacle
	Mixed Reviews
5: W.S. Gilbert, The English Aristophanes
	Gilbert and the Classics
	Thespis (1871)
	The Happy Land (1873)
	Utopia Limited (1893)
	The Princess and Princess Ida
6: The Glory and the Shame: Debating the Aesthetics of Old Comedy
	John Addington Symonds
	Wilde’s Clouds and Swinburne’s Birds
	George Meredith
	Robert Browning
	Aubrey Beardsley
7: Aristophanes in the Phrontisterion: Performances of Old Comedy at Schools and Universities
	Aristophanes at University before the Nineteenth Century
	The Victorian Aristophanes in Schools
	Aristophanes at University
8: Women’s Aristophanes: Old Comedy and the Fight for Gender Equality
	The Birds (1899) and the Bees (1904)
	Lysistrata (1910)
	How the Vote Was Won (1909)
9: Towards a Modern Aristophanes
	Gilbert Murray (1866–1957)
		Glasgow Critical Texts (1893)
		A History of Ancient Greek Literature (1897)
		The Frogs (1902)
		The 1914 Oxford Acharnians
		Aristophanes and the War Party (1918)
		Gilbert Murray’s Aristophanes after the War
	George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) and Major Barbara (1905)
10: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index