Aristophanes' Engagement With Tragedy Is One Of The Most Striking Features Of His Comedies. Tragedy On The Comic Stage Contextualizes This Engagement With Tragedy Within Greek Comedy As A Genre By Examining Paratragedy In The Fragments Of Aristophanes' Contemporaries And Successors In The Fifth And Fourth Centuries [bc]. -- Acknowledgments -- Note To The Reader -- Introduction -- Part One: The Fragments Of Greek Comedy -- Electra And The Coal Pan: Tragic Culture In The Comic Fragments -- Give Me A Bit Of Paratragedy: Tragic Parody In The Comic Fragments -- Part Two: Aristophanes -- The Man Is Obsessed With Song: A Contest Of Genres In Wasps -- Euripides In The Echo Chamber: Poets And Their Poetry In Women At The Thesmophoria -- Writing Beyond Genres: The Dionysiac Festival In Gerytades And Wealth -- Conclusion. Matthew C. Farmer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.