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Drama Analysis 407

Review Essay of Articles on Aristophanes and Comedy Drama

In the article On the Conception of Low Comedy in Aristophanes by Alfred Emerson, the

author stated that “An artist is not obliged to ask the world into his workshop” but the reality is

that comedy revolved around normal people moving up in the world and would feature a happier

ending. It means that the poet’s daily life itself can never be separated from his workshop. In

literary circles, people often talk of high comedy and low comedy. Instead of giving the

explanation of both high comedy and low comedy, the author merely talks about the low comedy

itself. I know that Aristophanes uses low comedy on his drama, but giving an explanation about

the differences of those kinds of comedy will be interesting and easy to be understood to the

average reader, and it required several readings to establish why the author felt this study needed

to be analyzed. Meanwhile, in the article Religious Burlesque in Aristophanes and Elsewhere,

the analysis of burlesque is well organized but, due to the difficulty of the analogy used, will not

stand alone to the average reader. And in the Comic Terminations in Aristophanes Part V, I think

the findings are not well organized and not sectioned. There is no correlation between the ending

of the story with the grammar used. The author had better conclude how Aristophanes ends his

comedy drama whether it is full of comic surprises or not. This is an in-depth analysis of a

comedy drama project, particularly for a journal article. For the most part, it was well written and

well organized. There was a definite need for a short review of the literature to develop the

situation. The article did get a little complicated in the reporting of data due to the complicated

analogy used. Overall, it was a very interesting, significant contribution to the field of research.