Reading Roman Comedy : Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence

Name: Reading Roman Comedy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107403871
Price: 8050 KES
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ISBN: 9781107403871

by Alison Sharrock

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures

ISBN-10 1107403871

ISBN-13 9781107403871

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 12th, 2012

Print length 334 Pages

Weight 516 grams

Dimensions 23.00 x 16.20 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: plays & playwrights Literary studies: plays and playwrights Classical history / classical civilisation Ancient history

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This book undertakes a literary analysis of the comic plays of Plautus and Terence. Despite being some of the earliest Latin literature in existence, they are argued to be sophisticated literary works which require close attention from the reader, while at the same time rewarding the audience with immediate humour.

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.

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