Knights, political and theatrical composition
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Aristophanes, theater, politics, comedyAbstract
Aristophanes presents, in Knights, the political dispute between two opponents to rule the People's House and reveals cunning meanders to come and stay in power. In this article, it is analyzed the relationship between the historical reference and aesthetic elaboration from i) the characters and Athens' everyday political; ii) poetic creation and/or portrait of daily life?; iii) the comic action: reality reflected in the mirror of comedy; and pondering Aristophanes' construction in the correlation of structure and content to potentiate the theatrical play. Thus, it is possible to see the foundational relationship between comedy and subjects that move the city such as politics and theater, demonstrating that the spectator is a fundamental part in the political and theatrical acts. Even though it happened many centuries ago, that comedy evidences the theme pertinence and characters conformation, revealing the political environment deterioration, easily identified by the contemporary reader/spectator.References
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