The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy, 3 Volume Set

<p>Available online or as a 3-volume print set, <i>The</i> <i>Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy</i> is a comprehensive and accessible reference covering all of Greek comedy and its reception from antiquity to the present.</p> <ul> <li>Features the work of nearly 200 established and rising scholars from around the world</li> <li>Contains more than 1300 entries, organized in A-Z format, with helpful cross-references and an index of authors and plays</li> <li>Provides extensive and detailed coverage of the work of those dramatists who have no complete plays extant</li> <li>Explores a wide range of topics, including the varieties and phases of the genre; the authors and their major plays; composition and technique; the relationship between comedy and society; the preservation and transmission of comic texts; responses to Greek comedy by artists from Plato to Picasso and beyond; and modern methods of literary analysis and criticism</li> </ul>