Roman Comedy

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : George E. Duckworth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : William S. Anderson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : 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 : David Konstan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Latin drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 0801493986

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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 : Christopher B. Polt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Shawn O'Bryhim,George Fredric Franko
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292760558

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Greek and Roman Comedy by Shawn O'Bryhim,George Fredric Franko 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 : Alison Sharrock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Dorota M. Dutsch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191559860

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Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy by Dorota M. Dutsch Pdf

As literature written in Latin has almost no female authors, we are dependent on male writers for some understanding of the way women would have spoken. Plautus (3rd to 2nd century BCE) and Terence (2nd century BCE) consistently write particular linguistic features into the lines spoken by their female characters: endearments, soft speech, and incoherent focus on numerous small problems. Dorota M. Dutsch describes the construction of this feminine idiom and asks whether it should be considered as evidence of how Roman women actually spoke.

Author : Evangelos Karakasis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139444453

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Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy by Evangelos Karakasis Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores Terence's use of language to differentiate his characters and his language in relation to the language of the comic fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. Linguistic categories in the Terentian corpus explored include colloquialisms, archaisms, hellenisms and idiolectal features. Terence is shown to give his old men an old-fashioned and verbose tone, while low characters are represented as using colloquial diction. An examination of Eunuchus' language shows it to be closer to the Plautine linguistic tradition. The book also provides a thorough linguistic/stylistic commentary on all the fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. It shows that Terence, except in the case of his Eunuchus, consciously distances himself from the linguistic/stylistic tradition of Plautus followed by all other comic poets.

Author : Martin T. Dinter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Lucy Adele Whitsel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
ISBN : WISC:89097614259

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Studies in the Grouping of Words in Roman Comedy by Lucy Adele Whitsel Pdf

Author : Michael Fontaine,Adele C. Scafuro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Timothy J. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : C. W. Marshall,Tom Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472588852

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Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire by C. W. Marshall,Tom Hawkins Pdf

Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood. This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.