Frogs: The Mimesis of Dionysus
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.1.127-139Keywords:
Aristophanes, Frogs, mimesis, theater, comedy, tragedyAbstract
The reading of the plays by the comediographer Aristophanes (450-385 B.C.) allows us to identify a recurring subject: the theatrical activity and its elements. In Frogs, a play which depicts a trip took by the theater’s god Dionysus, worried about the ways and rules of his art, and committed to recovering the tragedy’s glory. In order to do so, by setting two phases in the play’s plot and structure, the character stages his hybrid disposition and transformation possibilities that reflect elements of theatrical composition. Thus, this study focuses on how this repertoire was presented, highlighting the correlation between structure and content of the theatrical text, emphasizing the aesthetic composition of the author and work through Dionysus, who conducts the play as an aesthetic, scenic, and metatheatrical object.
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