Talking about Laughter

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Talking about Laughter is written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by OUP Oxford. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0191569682 (ISBN 10) and 9780191569685 (ISBN 13).

This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.