[PDF] Reading Roman Comedy eBook

Author : Alison Sharrock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139482645

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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 : David Konstan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Latin drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 9780801493980

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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 : 10,2 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107006481

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

Author : Michael Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199743541

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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 : George E. Duckworth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400872375

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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 : Martin T. Dinter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107002109

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

Author : Plautus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1585106232

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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 F. Hardin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1683931297

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The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution of Plautus, detached from his fellow Roman dramatist Terence, and seen in the context of that European revival, first as it took shape on the Continent. The heart of the book, with special focus on English comedy ca. 1560 to 1640, analyzes elements of Plautine technique during the period, as differentiated from native and Terentian, considering such points of comparison as dialogue, asides, metadrama, observation scenes, characterization, and atmosphere. This is the first book to cover this ground, raising such questions as: How did comedy rather suddenly progress from the interludes and brief plays of the early sixteenth century to longer, more complex plays? What did “Plautus” mean to playwrights and readers of the time? Plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton are foregrounded, but many other comedies provide illustration and support.

Author : Christopher B. Polt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1108839819

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

Author : Michael Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0195341449

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Combining textual and literary evidence, this book argues that many Plautine jokes, puns, and names of characters were misunderstood in antiquity. By examining the comedian's tendency to make up and misuse words, Fontaine elucidates many new jokes and argues for a sophisticated, Hellenistic Plautus who wrote for a sophisticated Roman audience.