Some Bibliography: Aristophanes CLOUDS
Illustration: Red Figure Tondo from Cylix. Ca. 490 BCE.
Oedipus contemplates the Sphinx.
Daphne O’Regan’s RHETORIC, COMEDY AND THE VIOLENCE OF LANGUAGE IN ARISTOPHANES’ CLOUDS (Oxford, 1992).
Ch. 1 The changing Role of Logos: Background
Ch. 2 Setting the Scene: Lines 1-132
Ch. 3 Meeting the Wise Souls and Their Gods: Lines 133-313
Ch. 4 Martial Speech, Fluid Shapes, Thunderous Sounds: Lines 314-509.
Ch. 5 Aristophanes’ Failures The Parabasis: Lines 510-626
Ch. 6 Strepsiades’ Failures: Lines 627-888
Ch. 7 The Debate of the Logoi — The Agon: Lines 889-1112
Ch. 8 The Triumph of Practical Sophistry: Lines 1113-1302
Ch. 9 Comic Justice: Lines 1303 1510
“Pericles and Alcibiades at the Phrontistery: Aristophanes’ Clouds I,” and “Pericles, Alcibiades, and the Generation Gap: Aristophanes’ Clouds II” Chpaters 2 and 3 in Pericles on Stage: Political comedy in Aristophanes’ Early Plays by Michael Vickers (Texas, 1997), pages 22-58.
Performance and textuality in Aristophanes’ “Clouds” Rosen, Ralph M. The Yale Journal of Criticism. New Haven: Fall 1997. Vol. 10, Iss. 2; p. 397 (25 pages)
Using ancient plays such as Aristophanes’ “Clouds” as examples, Rosen describes how works changed from performance pieces to authorized texts. He compares this to jazz in modern times, which moved from improvised performances to recordings, raising questions about the history of authorship as something identifiable and ownable.
“Aristophanes’ Old-and-New Comedy: Clouds” Chapter 33 in K. J. Reckford’s Aristophanes’ Old-and-New Comedy, vol. 1 (Univ. North Carolina, 1987), pp. 388-402.
In Aristophanes’ view, ‘old comedy’ was what his precursors had performed. Reckford discusses the merits of the Clouds in an entertaining way and Aristophanes’ place in Athenian drama.
“Misunderstood Intellectuals and Misunderstood Poets” Chapter 5 in The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Inertextual Parabasis 1991, by Thomas K. Hubbard. pp. 88-112. In many respects the Clouds is the most troubled and self-questioning of Aristiphanes’ plays. By questioning the position of the intellectual within society, Aristophanes als questions the status of his own art; in this play more than anywhere, we see the poet doubting the value and efficacy of Comedy itself.”
“A total write-off. Aristophanes, Cratinus, and the rhetoric of comic competition”.Ian Ruffell. Classical Quarterly. Oxford: 2002. Vol. 52, Iss. 1; p. 138 .
The rivalry between comic poets remains one of the great gaps in the understanding of Old Comedy. Nothing illustrates this better than Aristophanes’ many responses to the third place of “Clouds” at the Dionysia of 424/3 B.C. The relationship between Arisotophanes and Cratinus can be seen as paradigmatic reporter of comic intertextuality in general.
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