Greek Old Comedy, in late-fifth-century BC Athens, used parody and other means to engage tragedy, the
satyr play, and contemporary lyric in order to enhance the status of the genre as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics, and society, argues Sells.
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In contrast, Gianni Schicchi is a light hearted
satyr play played out around the death-bed of a rich man.
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satyr play played out around the death-bed of a rich man.
His analysis of key dialogues supports his claim that Plato employed and sought to transform the classical theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, and
satyr play.
The five early speeches and that of Socrates, including his account of Diotima, are considered as a trilogy in the tradition of Greek tragedy with the arrival of Alcibiades as the concluding
satyr play. The third introduction compares Plato's Symposium with that of Xenophon and with Plato's Phaedrus.
In the second chapter, the author studies the
satyr play Cyclops by Euripides that dramatizes the Homeric episodes and reconstructs the oral myths in literature through an allusive practice that is a part of the hermeneutic skill in critical exercise: The Cyclops is a very striking instance of how later writers appropriate, and often, as in this case, literally 're-write' their predecessors by bringing out the modern structures which can be found there; as is well known, Euripides reads Homer in the light of some of the political and ethical interests of late fifth-century Athens ...
Byatt who describes the work as 'the
satyr play that accompanied the tragedy [of Death in Venice]--the comic and parodic tale of a jeune homme moyen sensual, caught up in the dance of death'.
His pragmatic, expeditious strategies for insuring that his (and his companions') needs are met stand in explicit contrast to the aggressively gluttonous attitudes of the suitors in the Odyssey, the grim cannibalism threatened by the mourning Achilles in the Il iad, or the gleefully profligate ingestion of the Cyclops in Euripides'
satyr play.
Aeschylus also wrote a
satyr play with comic elements which was performed with the tragedies, but this has been lost.
satyr play - an ancient Greek burlesque with a chorus of satyrs