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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Three Comedies of T. Maccius Plautus written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801495946
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Three Comedies written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major comic artist in Republican Rome, Plautus left a legacy of twenty inventive comedies that display an exuberance and zany sense of humor that are distinctly Roman.
Author : Plautus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203624
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Five Comedies written by Plautus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819198150
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Three Comedies written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special genius of the Roman comic poet Plautus is the wedding of native Italian farce with the mature and polished constructions of Greek comedy. The three plays translated in this book all contain that almost inevitable kernel of Greek comic plot: the love affair. But they have little else in common. In the first, a self-inflating soldier tries to live up to his image of himself as a lover. In the second, a beautiful maiden is rescued from an evil pimp. And in the third, an ill-starred husband fancies himself in love with his wife's young housemaid. Clever, or at least ambitious, slaves tend to move the action, in which the rudeness of farce merges with exuberant wit, satire, and parody.
Author : Plautus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585106232
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence written by Plautus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959487
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.
Author : Michael Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199743541
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy written by Michael Fontaine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathleen McCarthy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824702
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy written by Kathleen McCarthy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What pleasures did Plautus' heroic tricksters provide their original audience? How should we understand the compelling mix of rebellion and social conservatism that Plautus offers? Through a close reading of four plays representing the full range of his work (Menaechmi, Casina, Persa, and Captivi), Kathleen McCarthy develops an innovative model of Plautine comedy and its social effects. She concentrates on how the plays are shaped by the interaction of two comic modes: the socially conservative mode of naturalism and the potentially subversive mode of farce. It is precisely this balance of the naturalistic and the farcical that allows everyone in the audience--especially those well placed in the social hierarchy--to identify both with and against the rebel, to feel both the thrill of being a clever underdog and the complacency of being a securely ensconced authority figure. Basing her interpretation on the workings of farce and naturalism in Plautine comedy, McCarthy finds a way to understand the plays' patchwork literary style as well as their protean social effects. Beyond this, she raises important questions about popular literature and performance not only on ancient Roman stages but in cultures far from Plautus' Rome. How and why do people identify with the fictional figures of social subordinates? How do stock characters, happy endings, and other conventions operate? How does comedy simultaneously upset and uphold social hierarchies? Scholars interested in Plautine theater will be rewarded by the detailed analyses of the plays, while those more broadly interested in social and cultural history will find much that is useful in McCarthy's new way of grasping the elusive ideological effects of comedy.
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760283
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
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 : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521349703
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menaechmi is one of Plautus' liveliest and most entertaining comedies, the main inspiration for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Dr Gratwick's edition brings new light to bear on the interpretation of the play and on Plautus' place in the development of European comedy. Central to his treatment is the fact that Plautus was a dramatist who wrote to be heard rather than to be read. The various metres which he subtly and flexibly exploited for musical and dramatic effect are here explained in a way that challenges many received views but also offers the student practical assistance in grappling with the technical problems involved both on stage and in performance. The text has been newly constituted on the basis of a complete reappraisal of the manuscript tradition in the light of scholarship since the Renaissance.
Author : William Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1420 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Oarses-Zygia written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Oarses-Zygia written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1424 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Maccius Plautus
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801850738
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Plautus written by T. Maccius Plautus and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995-09-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators for the final two volumes of a four-volume set containing all twenty-one surviving comedies of one of Western literature's greatest dramatists. Born in Sarsina, Umbria, in 254 B.C., Plautus is said to have worked in Rome as a stage carpenter and later as a miller's helper. Whether authentic or not, these few details about the playwright's life are consistent with the image of him one might infer from his plays. Plautus was not "literary" but rather an energetic and resourceful man of the world who spoke the language of the people. His dramatic works were his way of describing and portraying that world in a language the people understood. Since Plautus's career unfolded against the background of the Second Punic War, it is not surprising that his prologues often end with a wish for the audience's "good luck against your enemies" or that the plays have their share of arrogant generals, boastful military captains, and mercenary adventurers. But other unforgettable characters are here as well—among them Euclio, in the Aulularia, the model for Molière's miser. In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals, the plays of Plautus are accessible to a new generation. Plays and translators: Volume 4: Persa, Palmer Bovie . Menaechmi, Palmer Bovie . Cistellaria, R. H. W. Dillard . Pseudolus, Richard Beacham . Stichus, Carol Poster . Vidularia, John Wright.
Author : Michael Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195341449
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Funny Words in Plautine Comedy written by Michael Fontaine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
