Greek And Roman Comedy

Author : Michael Fontaine,Adele C. Scafuro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199743544

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy by Michael Fontaine,Adele C. Scafuro Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
ISBN : MINN:31951002402482F

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The Acharnians by Aristophanes Pdf

Author : George E. Duckworth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Shawn O'Bryhim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780292778825

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Greek and Roman Comedy by Shawn O'Bryhim Pdf

Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights—the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent theme in the play, and a bibliography of selected readings about the play and playwright. This range of material, rare in a single volume, provides several reading and teaching options, from the study of a single author to an overview of the entire Classical comedic tradition. The plays have been translated for readability and fidelity to the original text by established Classics scholars. Douglas Olson provides the translation and commentary for Aristophanes' Acharnians, Shawn O'Bryhim for Menander's Dyskolos, George Fredric Franco for Plautus' Casina, and Timothy J. Moore for Terence's Phormio.

Author : Robert W. Corrigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781476841915

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Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman by Robert W. Corrigan Pdf

Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight ä varied stimulating broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century. ä Leonard C. Pronko author ÊTheatre East and WestÊ Chair Dept. of Theatre Pomona College. Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor translated by Palmer Bovie.

Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521760287

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy by Martin Revermann Pdf

This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.

Author : William S. Anderson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Richard L. Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : George Eckel Duckworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032566088

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The Nature of Roman Comedy by George Eckel Duckworth Pdf

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Author : F. H. Sandbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Classical drama (Comedy)
ISBN : UOM:39015004268234

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The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome by F. H. Sandbach Pdf

Inleiding tot de komedies van Griekse en Romeinse schrijvers, met aandacht voor de toneeltechnische aspecten die met de opvoering samenhangen

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501731754

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Roman Comedy by David Konstan Pdf

This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." David Konstan looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra. Offering new interpretations of each, he develops a "typology of plot forms" by analyzing structural features and patterns of conventional behavior in the plays, and he relates the results of his literary analysis to contemporary social conditions. He argues that the plays address tensions that were potentially disruptive to the ancient city-state, and that they tended to resolve these tensions in ways that affirmed traditional values. Roman Comedy is an innovative and challenging book that will be welcomed by students of classical literature, ancient social history, the history of the theater, and comedy as a genre.

Author : Timothy J. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107006485

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Music in Roman Comedy by Timothy J. Moore Pdf

This book offers a new explanation of how the plays of Plautus and Terence worked as musical theatre.

Author : Martin T. Dinter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107002104

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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy by Martin T. Dinter Pdf

Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

Author : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Aristophanes,Menander,Plautus,Terence
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141959481

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Classical Comedy by Aristophanes,Menander,Plautus,Terence Pdf

From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.