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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Haunted House. Translated from Plautus by H. A. Strong, Etc written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mostellaria... written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Haunted House (Mostellaria) written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013413537
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Haunted House (Mostellaria) written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Lisa Morton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780235372
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Ghosts written by Lisa Morton and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From that cheerful puff of smoke known as Casper to the hunkiest potter living or dead, Sam Wheat, there is probably no more iconic entity in supernatural history than the ghost. And these are just recent examples. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today’s ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every culture in human history. In this book, Lisa Morton uses her scholarly prowess—more powerful than any proton pack—to wrangle together history’s most enduring ghosts into an entertaining and comprehensive look at what otherwise seems to always evade our eyes. Tracing the ghost’s constantly shifting contours, Morton asks the most direct question—What exactly is a ghost?—and examines related entities such as poltergeists, wraiths, and revenants. She asks how a ghost is related to a soul, and she outlines all the different kinds of ghosts there are. To do so, she visits the spirits of the classical world, including the five-part Egyptian soul and the first haunted-house, conceived in the Roman playwright Plautus’s comedy, Mostellaria. She confronts us with the frightening phantoms of the Middle Ages—who could incinerate priests and devour children—and reminds us of the nineteenth-century rise of Spiritualism, a religion essentially devoted to ghosts. She visits with the Indian bhuta and goes to the Hungry Ghost Festival in China, and of course she spends time in Mexico, where ghosts have a particularly strong grip on belief and culture. Along the way she gathers the ectoplasmic residues seeping from books and film reels, from the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto to the 2007 blockbuster Paranormal Activity, from the stories of Ann Radcliffe to those of Stephen King. Wide-ranging, informative, and slicked with over fifty unearthly images, Ghosts is an entertaining read of a cultural phenomenon that will delight anyone, whether they believe in ghosts or not.
Author : Amy Richlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108216439
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Slave Theater in the Roman Republic written by Amy Richlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared - natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty - and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape - all complicated by the actors' maleness. Comedy starts with anger.
Author : Debbie Felton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789246
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Haunted Greece and Rome written by Debbie Felton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories which arose from these beliefs. She then focuses on the longer stories of Plautus, Pliny, and Lucian, which concern haunted houses. Her analysis illuminates the oral and literary transmission and adaptation of folkloric motifs and the development of the ghost story as a literary form. In her concluding chapter, the author also traces the influence of ancient ghost stories on modern ghost story writers, a topic that will interest all readers and scholars of tales of hauntings.
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Captivi written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorota Dutsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118958004
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Plautus written by Dorota Dutsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars A Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on the celebrated Old Latin period playwright. A brilliant comic poet, Plautus moved beyond writing Latin versions of Greek plays to create a uniquely Roman cultural experience worthy of contemporary scholarship. Contributions by a team of international scholars explore the theatrical background of Roman comedy, the theory and practice of Plautus’ dramatic composition, the relation of Plautus’ works to Roman social history, and his influence on later dramatists through the centuries. Responding to renewed modern interest in Plautine studies, the Companion reassesses Plautus’ works—plays that are meant to be viewed and experienced—to reveal new meaning and contemporary relevance. Chapters organized thematically offer multiple perspectives on individual plays and enable readers to gain a deeper understanding of Plautus’ reflection of, and influence on Roman society. Topics include metatheater and improvisation in Plautus, the textual tradition of Plautus, trends in Plautus Translation, and modern reception in theater and movies. Exploring the place of Plautus and Plautine comedy in the Western comic tradition, the Companion: Addresses the most recent trends in the study of Roman comedy Features discussions on religion, imperialism, slavery, war, class, gender, and sexuality in Plautus’ work Highlights recent scholarship on representation of socially vulnerable characters Discusses Plautus’ work in relation to Roman stages, actors, audience, and culture Examines the plot construction, characterization, and comic techniques in Plautus’ scripts Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series, A Companion to Plautus is an important resource for scholars, instructors, and students of both ancient and modern drama, comparative literature, classics, and history, particularly Roman history.
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195151237
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Author : Martin T. Dinter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002109
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy written by Martin T. Dinter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Cock Lane and Common-sense written by Andrew Lang and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1894 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107099773
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage written by Michelle M. Dowd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.
Author : Warren S. Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026291
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage written by Warren S. Smith and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.
Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780936839851
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Robert Willoughby Corrigan and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers comedies by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence and discusses the background of each play
Author : Georg Ebers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734054109
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Emperor written by Georg Ebers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Emperor by Georg Ebers
