Comedy And The Rise Of Rome

Author : Matthew Leigh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191514807

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Comedy and the Rise of Rome by Matthew Leigh Pdf

Comedy and the Rise of Rome invites the reader to consider Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of fourth- and third-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhood and command, and the clash of maritime and agrarian economies, and examines responses to them both on the comic stage and in the world at large. This is a substantially new departure in ways of thinking about Roman comedy and one that opens it up to a far wider public than has previously been the case.

Author : George E. Duckworth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400872374

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Nature of Roman Comedy by George E. Duckworth Pdf

This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : George Eckel Duckworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032566088

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Author : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004435124

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Roman Comedy by Gesine Manuwald Pdf

This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of ‘Roman comedy’, including primarily fabula palliata (‘New Comedy’, as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as fabula togata, fabula Atellana, mimus and pantomimus.

Author : Plautus,Terence
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585106233

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Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence by Plautus,Terence Pdf

This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus, provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on a handsomely produced, inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.

Author : Erich Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195041668

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Roman Laughter by Erich Segal Pdf

We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.' Phoenix This reissue of virtually the only book in English devoted to the work of the Roman comedy writer Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) includes a new preface and additional appendices covering the plays Amphitryon and Captivi.

Author : Kenneth McLeish
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039260547

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Roman Comedy by Kenneth McLeish Pdf

Author : Alison Sharrock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139482646

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Reading Roman Comedy by Alison Sharrock Pdf

For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.

Author : Amy Richlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107152311

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Slave Theater in the Roman Republic by Amy Richlin Pdf

Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.

Author : William S. Anderson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442654297

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Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy by William S. Anderson Pdf

In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries). Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus), transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows how Plautus diminished the traditional importance of love and replaced it with a new major theme: 'heroic badness,' especially embodied in the rogue slave (ancestor of the impudent servant, valet, or maid). Anderson then examines the unique verbal texture of Plautus' drama and demonstrates his revolt against realism, his drive to have his characters defy everyday circumstances and pit their intrepid linguistic wit against social order, their Roman extravagant impudence against Greek self-control. Finally, Anderson explores the special form of metatheatre that we admire in Plautus, by which he undermines the assumptions of his Greek 'models' and replaces them with a new, confident Roman comedy.

Author : Christopher B. Polt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108839815

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Catullus and Roman Comedy by Christopher B. Polt Pdf

Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.

Author : Titus Maccius Plautus,Terence
Publisher : Focus
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : NWU:35556041406380

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Roman Comedy by Titus Maccius Plautus,Terence Pdf

This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus, provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on a handsomely produced, inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.

Author : Richard L. Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521316529

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The New Comedy of Greece and Rome by Richard L. Hunter Pdf

The first literary account of a style of comic drama which was to become the root of all subsequent Western comedy. Places the social comedy of Menander, Plautus and Terence in its ancient context and considers its universal literary qualities.

Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350187580

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A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity by Michael Ewans Pdf

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century BCE. It explores the range of comedies during this period, which were fictional dramas that engaged with the political and social concerns of ancient society, and also at times with mythology and tragedy. The volume centres largely around the surviving work of Aristophanes and Menander in Athens, and Plautus and Terence in Rome, but authors whose plays survive only in fragments are also discussed. Performances and plays drew on a range of forms, including satire and fantasy, and were designed to entertain and amuse their audiences while also asking them to question issues of morality, privilege and class. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to ancient comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.

Author : Mathias Hanses
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132256

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The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence by Mathias Hanses Pdf

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. Playwrights Plautus and Terence impressed audiences with stock characters as the young-man-in-love, the trickster slave, the greedy pimp, the prostitute, and many others. A wide range of spectators visited Roman theaters, including even the most privileged members of Roman society: orators like Cicero, satirists like Horace and Juvenal, and love poets like Catullus and Ovid. They all put comedy’s varied characters to new and creative uses in their own works, as they tried to make sense of their own lives and those of the people around them by suggesting comparisons to the standard personality types of Roman comedy. Scholars have commonly believed that the plays fell out of favor with theatrical audiences by the end of the first century BCE, but The Life of Comedy demonstrates that performances of these comedies continued at least until the turn of the second century CE. Mathias Hanses traces the plays’ reception in Latin literature from the late first century BCE to the early second century CE, and shines a bright light on the relationships between comic texts and the works of contemporary and later Latin writers.