John Tulloch Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and Their Audiences Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2005. 328 p. $39.95. ISBN: 0-87745-926-6.

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Aristophanes’ heroes of comedy and you will discover ‘the citizen’, because citizenship exists through the shared desires found in shared experience–including that of the theatre of comedy. Comedic commonality, argues McGlew, is at the heart of democratic ideology. He begins with Cratinus’ portrayal of Pericles in his comic play Dionysalexandros. In Pericles’ funeral oration for the Athenian war dead (as given to us by Thucydides), a new public identity is created for the private dead. Pericles denies the possibility of an independent private life for an Athenian citizen within the context of his new democratic ideology. Cratinus undermines that idea simply by showing us a comic ‘Pericles’ with the same private desires the real Pericles would deny all citizens. Subsequent chapters focus mainly on Aristophanes. McGlew suggests that his great contribution to the democratic process was to put the common citizen at the …

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2006

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