Author: Titus Maccius PlautusPublisher:
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Category : Latin drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Trinummus of Plautus
Author: Titus Maccius PlautusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Trinummus
Author: Titus Maccius PlautusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Roman Drama and its Contexts
Author: Stavros FrangoulidisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110456508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their ‘context’, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.
T. Macci Plauti Trinummus with notes by W. Wagner
Author: Titus Maccius PlautusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Trinummus with Notes critical and exegetical, by Wilhelm Wagner
Author: Titus Maccius PlautusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
T. Macci Plauti Trinummus. With notes critical and exegetical by W. Wagner
Author: Titus Maccius PlautusPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Plautus in Performance
Author: Niall W. SlaterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134423942
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America's foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of Plautus' ancient drama. In addition to the original detailed studies of six of the dramatists's plays, the methodology of performance criticism, the use of conventions, and the nature of comic heroism in Plautus, this edition includes new studies on: * the induction into the world of the play * the scripted imitation of improvisation * Plautus's comments on his previous work * the nature of 'tragicomedy'.
Roman Laughter
Author: Erich SegalPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195041666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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.
Plautine Trends
Author: Ioannis N. PerysinakisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110392720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, a collective volume published as a Festschrift in honour of Prof. D. Raios (University of Ioannina), aims to contribute to the current, intense discussion on Plautine drama and engage with most of the topics which lie at the forefront of recent scholarship on ‘literary Plautus’. 13 papers by experts on Roman Comedy address issues concerning a) the structure of Plautine plot in its social, historical and philosophical contexts, b) the interfaces between language and comic plot, and c) plot and language as signs of reception. Participants include (in alphabetical order): A. Augoustakis, R.R. Caston, D.M. Christenson, M. Fontaine, S. Frangoulidis, M. Hanses, E. Karakasis, D. Konstan, K. Kounaki–Philippides, S. Papaioannou, A. Sharrock, N.W. Slater, and J.T. Welsh. The papers of the volume are preceded by an introduction offering a review of the extensive literature on the subject in recent years and setting the volume in its critical context. The preface to the volume is written by R.L. Hunter. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Plautine Comedy and its reception.
Letters in Plautus
Author: Emilia A. BarbieroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009203312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The letters in Plautus are potent tools for making and thinking about Plautine comedy inside Plautine comedy. Emilia Barbiero demonstrates that Plautus' embedded letters reify the internal performance and evince its theatricality by means of the epistolary medium's script-like ability to precipitate presence in absence. These missives thus serve as emblems of the dramatic script, and in their onstage composition and recitation they cast a portrait of the plays' textual origins into the plays themselves. But by virtue of their inscription with a premise which is identical to that of the comedies they inhabit, the Plautine letters also reproduce the relationship between the playwright's Greek models and his Latin translations: the mirror effect created by a dramatic text inscribed, read and realized within a dramatic text whose plot it also duplicates generates a mise-en-abyme which ultimately serves to contemplate problems of novelty and literary ownership that beset Plautus' literary endeavor.