Aristophanes' Old-And-New Comedy
Reckford, Kenneth J.![Aristophanes' Old-And-New Comedy](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/671/6718226/CHSBZCOP036718226.jpg)
This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation. A better approach, he decided, would be to define a comic perspective within which Aristophanes' comedies in general as well as the Clouds in particular could be appreci...