LANDFESTER, M.,
Die Ritter des Aristophanes. Beobachtungen zur dramatischen Handlung und zum komischen Stil des Aristophanes.
B.R. Grüner, Amsterdam, 1967. 104p. Cloth. Personal library mark and name on free endpaper.
‘ This short book grew out of an appendix to the author’s dissertation on the meaning of certain compound words in the Knights. Its object is to consider the play as a dramatic unit, and to show that unfavourable criticisms of it on this score are not justified. (…) Both the exodus and some earlier scenes have been criticized in the past, the first for its apparent lack of connection with the rest of the play, the latter for their monotony, Landfester maintains that these difficulties diminish if the reader understands the main theme of the play to be the sovereignty of Demos and notes the imitation of Oedipus Tyrannus. (…) The book is essentially a running commentary on the development of dramatic action, interspersed with a number of interpretations of particular difficulties. It is well written, and documented with an almost excessive number of references in the footnotes.’ (N.G. WILSON in The Classical Review (New Series), 1969, p.156). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.
€ 25.00
(Antiquarian)