Menander Knihy

S rozvojom aténskej demokracie sa od 5. storočia pred Kr. v Grécku formuje nové dramatické umenie. V Aténach sa konajú súťaže, kde sa predvádzajú dramatické diela, ktoré sa stávajú súčasťou sviatkov a osláv. Tragédie a drámy získavajú na význame, pričom ich príprava si vyžaduje značné finančné prostriedky na dosiahnutie vysokej kvality. Divadelné predstavenia, hrané len raz, ponúkajú divákom jedinečný zážitok s neopakovateľnou atmosférou. Verše drám sa zapisovali a šírili medzi ľuďmi. Medzi najvýznamnejších autorov patrili Aischylos, Sofokles, Euripides a Aristofanes, ktorí sa snažili o víťazstvo v súťažiach. Publikácia obsahuje výber diel Aischyla, Euripida a Menandra, mladšieho komického dramatika. Tragédie ako Prikovaný Prometheus a Trójanky, ako aj komédia Odľud, sú považované za vrcholné diela týchto autorov. Dielo dopĺňajú štúdie Miloslava Okála a Anikó Polgár, ktoré sa zaoberajú charakteristikami gréckej drámy a rozoberajú uvedené diela, ako aj ďalšiu tvorbu výnimočných autorov antickej drámy.

Tento reprezentativní soubor Menandrova díla obsahuje téměř vše, co se z Menandrova díla dochovalo - a to nejen komedie, ale i výbor z tzv. menandrovských úsloví. Český čtenář má příležitost seznámit se z výše zmíněnými nálezy, jež patří k největším literárním objevům 20. století, a dostatečně nahlédnout do dílny autora, který ve své době nebyl příliš úspěšný, ale zásadně ovlivnil římskou komedii prostřednictvím Plauta a Terentia i komedii moderní.

This volume provides a Greek text based on careful study of recently discovered papyri, a facing translation and full explanatory notes so the Menander's comic art can now be fully known and enjoyed. schovat popis

Set in ancient Athens, this nearly complete play from the Athenian New Comedy showcases the talent of Menander, a renowned playwright of his time. Winning first prize at the Lenaia festival, it reflects the comedic style that greatly influenced Roman playwrights like Terence and Plautus, as well as later figures such as Shakespeare and Molière. The work highlights the themes and character dynamics typical of Menander's era, making it a significant piece in the evolution of comedic theater.

Menander (?344/3-292/1 BCE), the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays, of which one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but interesting fragments have been recovered. The complete play, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), won first prize in Athens in 317 BCE.

Six wide ranging classic plays with introduction by the editorThe comedies of the Athenian theatre not only lie at the root of Western drama, they also offer a unique insight into everyday life in ancient Greece. This selection of six wide ranging plays includes the comic fantasies of Aristophanes, which combine the ridiculous with serious satirical comment (Birds, Frogs, Women in Power); Menander's The Woman from Samos, a recognisable forebear of today's situation comedy; Euripides ribald satyr play, Cyclops, the only surviving example of the genre, and his Alkestis, a complex romance which gave a new face to comedy.The volume is edited and introduced by J. Michael Walton, Professor of Drama at the University of Hull and founder/director of the Performance Translation Centre there.

MENANDER (?344/3-292/1 B.C.) of Athens was the leading playright of the 'New Comedy', a type of drama which has influenced the modern 'Comedy of Manners' and (indirectly at least writers as disparate as Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse. Menander wrote more than 100 plays, but did not become a star until after his death. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost, apart from quotations like 'He whom the gods love dies while still a youngster.' Then at the end of the nineteenth century, papyrus texts, preserved from antiquity by the dry heat of Egypt, began to be discovered. These have yielded so far one play virtually complete (Dyskolos), large continuous portions of four more (Aspis, Epitrepontes, Perikeiromene, Samia), and sizable chunks of many others. Menander remains a paradox: artificial plots based on unlikely but conventional coincidences, enlivened by individualised characters, realistic situations and at times deeply moving dialogue. 'Menander and life, which of you imitated the other?'

For eight centuries after his death Menander was the third most popular poet in the Greek-speaking world, and his plays, through Roman imitations and adaptations, engendered a tradition of European light drama that extends to our own day. But it is only since 1844 that some of the actual texts of Menander's plays have been rediscovered, mostly in Egyptian papyri. Two of these have given us four-fifths of the script of Samia (The Woman from Samos), a play of deception and misunderstanding in which a marriage that everyone desires almost fails to happen, two women and a baby are almost ruined, and a loving father almost loses his only son, because the people at home and the people abroad have both been doing things behind each other's backs - but somehow everything ends happily after all. This is the first full-scale edition with English commentary and is suitable for upper-level students.