This comic hero is the anti-type to the hero in tragedy. The plays also tend to revolve around a single central figure. The plots often revolve around an ingenious, sometimes inspired, attempt to solve a problem which in real life would be near impossible, whether it is to put a stop to war at a stroke or as in Cloud to dig a way out of seemingly inescapable debts. Athenian comedy often opens up a world of boundless possibility. There are recurrent plot types and recurrent characters, both of which recur because they have enormous audience appeal. But as Antiphanes and his audience knew, comedy too has its conventions. They are writing about known myths and, because the audience knows the stories, the audience does half the writer's work by filling in the details. The point is that tragedians have an easy life. They raise the crane as easy as their finger Then when they when they've nothing more to say His mother, and Adrastus with a grievance at once If someone says Alclmaeon, immediately he's mentionedĪll his children, that in madness he killed
For firstly its plotsīefore anyone even speaks. In a famous fragment from a lost play the Athenian comic writer Antiphanes sets out the advantages of writing tragedy: Strepsiades and the Aristophanic hero, by Professor Chris Carey He revised the play for a second production (which was never performed) and this is the version that survives today.
Clouds was first produced in the Dionysia of 423 BC, but to Aristophanes' great disappointment, the play was placed third and last. Though he wrote about forty plays, only eleven survive, nine of which were written during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. 386 BC) was regularly chosen to present his plays at the comedy competitions of the Lenaea and Dionysia festivals. One of the most famous Athenian comic playwrights, Aristophanes (c.
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