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Book Synopsis Plautus: Pseudolus by : Titus Maccius Plautus
Download or read book Plautus: Pseudolus written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new commentary on Pseudolus provides an excellent introduction to current trends and advances in the study of Roman comedy.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy by : Michael Fontaine
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.
Book Synopsis Plautus in Performance by : Niall W. Slater
Download or read book Plautus in Performance written by Niall W. Slater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.
Book Synopsis The Theater of Plautus by : Timothy J. Moore
Download or read book The Theater of Plautus written by Timothy J. Moore and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy by : Martin T. Dinter
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.
Book Synopsis The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by : Plautus
Download or read book The Pot of Gold and Other Plays written by Plautus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and The Pot of Gold, whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice. Throughout, Plautus breathes new, brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins, scheming slaves, bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values.
Book Synopsis The Comedies of Plautus by : Titus Maccius Plautus
Download or read book The Comedies of Plautus written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plautus and Roman Slavery by : Roberta Stewart
Download or read book Plautus and Roman Slavery written by Roberta Stewart and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery – and not simply masters or slaves – we need to see the interactions of individuals who speak to each other, a rare kind of evidence from the ancient world. Plautus’ comedies could be our most reliable source for reconstructing the lives of slaves in ancient Rome. By reading literature alongside the historical record, we can conjure a thickly contextualized picture of slavery in the late third and early second centuries bce, the earliest period for which we have such evidence. The book discusses how slaves were captured and sold; their treatment by the master and the community; the growth of the conception of the slave as “other than human,” and as chattel; and the problem of freedom for both slaves and society.
Book Synopsis Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence by : Plautus
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.
Book Synopsis Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated) by : Titus Maccius Plautus
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated) written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 3665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman playwright Plautus wrote comedies that are the earliest Latin literary texts to have survived in their entirety. Loosely adapted from lost Greek plays, the works of Plautus helped establish a truly Roman drama in the Latin language for the first time. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts. This comprehensive eBook presents Plautus’ complete extant works, with relevant illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Plautus’ life and works * Features the complete extant works of Plautus, in both English translation and the original Latin * All 20 extant plays * Concise introductions to the plays * Features translations by Henry Thomas Riley * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the acts you want to read with individual contents tables * Includes Plautus’ rare plays, first time in digital print * Features a bonus biography – discover Plautus’ ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translations AMPHITRYON ASINARIA AULULARIA BACCHIDES CAPTIVI CASINA CISTELLARIA CURCULIO EPIDICUS MENAECHMI MERCATOR MILES GLORIOSUS MOSTELLARIA PERSA POENULUS PSEUDOLUS RUDENS STICHUS TRINUMMUS TRUCULENTUS The Latin Texts LIST OF LATIN TEXTS The Biography INTRODUCTION TO PLAUTUS by Paul Nixon Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Book Synopsis The Menaechmus Twins, and Two Other Plays by : Titus Maccius Plautus
Download or read book The Menaechmus Twins, and Two Other Plays written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers is the story of two twin brothers, Menaechmus and Sosicles, who are separated at age seven when their father takes Menaechmus on a business trip.
Download or read book Four Comedies written by Plautus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Molière's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humour, and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an undisputed genius. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, making these the most readable and actable versions available. His introduction considers Plautus' place in ancient comedy, examines his continuing influence, and celebrates his power to entertain. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Book Synopsis Music in Roman Comedy by : Timothy J. Moore
Download or read book Music in Roman Comedy written by Timothy J. Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new explanation of how the plays of Plautus and Terence worked as musical theatre.
Download or read book Menaechmi written by Plautus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play Menaechmi provides an introduction to the world of Roman comedy from one of its best practitioners, Plautus. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on an inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.
Book Synopsis The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative by : N. J. Lowe
Download or read book The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative written by N. J. Lowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and closure. This book traces the formation of that classical paradigm in the development of ancient storytelling from Homer to Heliodorus. To tell this story, the book sets out to rehabilitate the idea of 'plot', notoriously disconnected from any recognised system of terminology in literary theory. The first part of the book draws on developments in narratology and cognitive science to propose a way of formally describing the way stories are structured and understood. This model is then used to write a history of the emergence of the classical plot type in the four ancient genres that shaped it - Homeric epic, fifth-century tragedy, New Comedy, and the Greek novel - with insights into the fundamental narrative poetics of each.
Book Synopsis Reading Roman Comedy by : Alison Sharrock
Download or read book Reading Roman Comedy written by Alison Sharrock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 334 pages. 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.
Book Synopsis Slavery in the Roman World by : Sandra R. Joshel
Download or read book Slavery in the Roman World written by Sandra R. Joshel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.
