Tag Archives: Aristophanes

DOCTRINE OF DUPLICITY

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Dave

” For that small matter of lies”, wrote Machiavelli,”I am a doctor and hold my degrees. Life has taught me to confound false and true, till no man knows either”. In ”The Prince” his personal confession becomes a general rule; … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Albert Camus, Aristophanes, Cesare Borgia, Charles VIII of France, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, King Charles VIII, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Neo-Platonism, Plato, Salman Rushdie, Savonarola, William Lee Adams, William Lee Adams Time magazine | 1 Comment

BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dave

Charlie Chaplin represented a vision of laughter, of comedy, that tore away at the veil, a social burka fitted over its explosive and unpredictable composition.A contrast of fast nickelodeons and the slow dimes of higher culture. He enabled a reconnection … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous | Tagged Aristophanes, Bakhtin, Bergson, Brecht, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, David Trotter, Fernand Leger, Film history, Frederic Jameson, Freud, James Agee, Neil Simon, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul, Woody Allen | 4 Comments

Grow Your Own Soup

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Dave

The comedies of the Aristophanes ( 444-380 BC ) include eleven that survive: Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Frogs, and Plutus. And the missing twenty-nine which remain at large, literary and poetic works of the Absent … Continue reading →