Plays and Fragments

Name: Plays and Fragments
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780140445015
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9780140445015

by Menander

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0140445013

ISBN-13 9780140445015

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Classics

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 24th, 1987

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 204 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 12.80 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Plays, playscripts Plays, playscripts, drama

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Describes the background of Menander's plays, and provides notes along with new translations of more than fifteen of his plays.

Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of ''Old Cantankerous'' (Dyskolos), the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as well as fragments from works including ''The Girl from Samos'' and ''The Rape of the Locks'', all of which are concerned with domestic catastrophes, the hazards of love and the trials of family life. Written in a poetic style regarded by the ancients as second only to Homer, these polished works - profoundly influential upon both Roman playwrights such as Plautus and Terence, and the wider Western tradition - may be regarded as the first true comedies of manners.

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