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Venom in Verse PRINCETON MODERN GREEK STUDIES This series is sponsored by the Princeton University Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement by Loring M. Danforth Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by Peter Bien Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece by Jane K. Cowan Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses edited and translated by Edmund Keeley Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece edited by Peter Loizos and Evthymios Papataxiarchis A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town by Michael Herzfeld Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture by Charles Stewart The Enlightenment as Social Criticism: Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century by Paschalis M. Kitromilides C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; edited by George Savidis The Fourth Dimension by Yannis Ritsos, Peter Green and Beverly Bardsley, translators George Seferis: Collected Poems, Revised Edition translated, edited, and introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine by Jill Dubisch Cavafy’s Alexandria, Revised Edition by Edmund Keeley The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation by Andrew Horton The Muslin Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha’s Greece by K. E. Fleming Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece by Gonda A. H. Van Steen Venom in Verse ARISTOPHANES IN MODERN GREECE Gonda A. H. Van Steen PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright(cid:1) 2000 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Van Steen, Gonda Aline Hector, 1964– Venom in verse: Aristophanes in modern Greece / Gonda A.H. Van Steen p. cm.—(Princeton modern Greek studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-00956-2 (alk. paper) 1. Aristophanes—Appreciation—Greece, Modern. 2. Aristophanes—Stage history—Greece, Modern. 3. Greek drama (Comedy)—Appreciation—Greece, Modern. 4. Greek drama (Comedy)—Presentation, Modern. 5. Theater—Greece, Modern—History. I. Title. II. Series. PA3879.V34 2000 882(cid:2).01—dc21 99-039767 Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Princeton University Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund This book has been composed in Galliard The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper) http://pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. To Greg Terzian and Dimitri Gondicas This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Prologue 3 CHAPTER 1 Poisoned Gift from Antiquity: Aristophanes as Paravase of Koraes’ Nationalist Ideology 16 CHAPTER 2 Aristophanes in Modern Greek: A Demotic, Satirical, and Theatrical Paravase 43 CHAPTER 3 The Lysistrata Euphoria of 1900 to 1940: Sexual and Antifeminist Paravase 76 CHAPTER 4 Koun’s Birds of 1959: Paravase of Right-Wing Politics 124 CHAPTER 5 Framing, Clowning, and Cloning Aristophanes 190 Epilogue 224 Notes 231 Bibliography 259 Index 275 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations FIGURES 1. Phasoules takes Aristophanes up into the clouds (Clouds) 98 2. Cartoon of Tsatsos by Makres 134 3. Cartoon of Tsatsos by Phokion Demetriades 136 4. Caricature of Tsatsos by Geses 137 5. Drawing by Elly Solomonide-Balanou of the 1997 memorial production of Koun’s Birds 146 6. The Lysistrata of cartoonist Bost 207 TABLES 1. Modern Greek Stage Productions of Aristophanes, 1951–74 226 2. Modern Greek Stage Productions of Aristophanes, 1975–98 227
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