Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy

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 ...