Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy

This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation. This first volume of Reckford's defense examines the comedies as a whole in a series of defining essays.