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List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Dissecting the Frog(s) (Peter Swallow, King's College London, UK) -- Part 1: Theory 2. Beyond a Joke: Making Humour Theory Work with Aristophanes (N.J. Lowe, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 3. Play as Shared Psychological Register: Paidi ̀, Laughter and Aristophanes (Edith Hall, King's College London, UK) -- 4. Aristophanic Incongruities (Craig Jendza, University of Kansas, USA) -- 5. Laughter, or Aristophanes' Joy in the Face of Death (Mario Tel,̣ UC Berkeley, USA) -- 6. Laughter and Collective Trauma in Aristophanic Comedy (Pavlos Sfyroeras, Middlebury College, USA) -- 7. The Satirist as Troll?: Sociopathic Strains in Aristophanes (Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- 8. The Hilarious Politics of the Supernatural in Aristophanic Comedy (Edith Hall, King's College London, UK) -- 9. Aristotle on Aristophanic Humour (Pierre Destrě, Universit ̌Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) -- Part 2: Practice -- 10. Surface and Deep Aristophanic Parody (Athina Papachrysostomou, University of Patras, Greece) -- 11. A Grammar of Para Prosdokian (Dimitrios Marios Kanellakis, University of Oxford, UK) -- 12. Laughing against the Machine (Maria Gerolemou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus) -- 13. No Laughing Matter? The Comic Potential of Madness in Aristophanes (Natalia Tsoumpra, University of Glasgow, UK) -- 14. Sexual Violence and Aristophanic Humour (Peter Swallow, King's College London, UK) -- 15. Aristophanes, Philosopher: The Comedy of Truth in Nietzsche and Freud (Adam Lecznar, University College London, UK) -- 16. Melancholia and Laughter: Modern Greek Productions of Aristophanes in the Twenty-First Century (Magdalena Zira, King's College London, UK) -- 17. Saving Classics with The Clouds: A Case Study in Adapting Aristophanes (David Bullen, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.