Decimus Laberius : The Fragments

Name: Decimus Laberius
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009073196
Price: 9050 KES
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ISBN: 9781009073196

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

ISBN-10 1009073192

ISBN-13 9781009073196

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 12th, 2021

Print length 544 Pages

Weight 660 grams

Dimensions 13.80 x 21.70 x 3.20 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

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First English translation of, and detailed commentary on the fragments of Laberius, who composed mimes, a form of scripted comic drama that was political, satirical, and amusingly obscene. It was very popular in the first century BC and in late antiquity, and shaped medieval theatre and the Italian commedia dell'arte.

This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call ''the literary Roman mime''. The volume also includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place of Laberius'' work within its historical and literary context. This is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic, metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective.

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