Reading Roman Comedy
Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence
Part of The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
- Author: Alison Sharrock, University of Manchester
- Date Published: January 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403871
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available on inspection
-
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.
Read more- Provides a new approach to Roman comedy, in which texts are treated and celebrated as literary devices
- Applies to Roman comedy the critical techniques more usually used with the Latin poetry of later periods
- Covers all the extant plays of Plautus and Terence
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: January 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403871
- length: 334 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Art and artifice
2. Beginnings
3. Plotting and playwrights
4. Repeat performance
5. Endings.
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email [email protected]
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×