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Author : John E. Thorburn
Release : 2005
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama by : John E. Thorburn
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama written by John E. Thorburn. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Release : 1940
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Book Synopsis T. Macci Plauti Epidicus by : Titus Maccius Plautus
Download or read book T. Macci Plauti Epidicus written by Titus Maccius Plautus. This book was released on 1940. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Sharrock
Release : 2009-09-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Reading Roman Comedy by : Alison Sharrock
Download or read book Reading Roman Comedy written by Alison Sharrock. This book was released on 2009-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stavros Frangoulidis
Release : 2016-03-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Roman Drama and its Contexts by : Stavros Frangoulidis
Download or read book Roman Drama and its Contexts written by Stavros Frangoulidis. This book was released on 2016-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Timothy J. Moore
Release : 2010-07-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Theater of Plautus by : Timothy J. Moore
Download or read book The Theater of Plautus written by Timothy J. Moore. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept at manipulating this relationship. Plautus allowed his actors to acknowledge freely the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit laughter through humorous asides and monologues, and simultaneously to flatter and tease the spectators. These metatheatrical techniques are the focus of Timothy J. Moore's innovative study of the comedies of Plautus. The first part of the book examines Plautus' techniques in detail, while the second part explores how he used them in the plays Pseudolus, Amphitruo, Curculio, Truculentus, Casina, and Captivi. Moore shows that Plautus employed these dramatic devices not only to entertain his audience but also to satirize aspects of Roman society, such as shady business practices and extravagant spending on prostitutes, and to challenge his spectators' preconceptions about such issues as marriage and slavery. These findings forge new links between Roman comedy and the social and historical context of its performance.
