...potential tragedy within itself. In myth, the hero is a god, and hence he does not die, but dies and rises again. The ritual pattern behind the catharsis of...death, the epiphany or manifestation of the risen hero. In Aristophanes the hero, who often goes through a point of ritual death, is treated as a risen god,...

...merely a different focus on the cycle of life and death, and each is therefore contained in the other: "For in the ritual the tragic story has a comic sequel....the epiphany or manifestation of the risen hero." Tragedy, in this sense, is "uncompleted comedy," and comedy, being about life— whatever the extent...

...in a complex volume on (what else?) obscenity, citing Northrop Frye's “The Argument of Comedy”: For in the ritual the tragic story has a comic sequel....death, the epiphany or manifestation of the risen hero. Tragedy, in this sense, is “uncompleted comedy,” and comedy, being about life — whatever the...

...The audience enters into communion with the body of the hero, becoming thereby a single body itself. Comedy grows out of the same ritual, for in the ritual...Aristophanes, where the hero is treated as a risen god-man, led in triumph with the divine honors of the Olympic victor, rejuvenated, or hailed as a new Zeus....

...comic Oedipus situation", examines the genetic relationship between comedy and tragedy, finds that "the ritual pattern behind the catharsis of comedy...the epiphany or manifestation of the risen hero", and proceeds to a brief analysis of Shakespeare's comic world in terms of these formulations. Leslie...