Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy
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In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries). Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus), transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802079415
ISBN13:9780802079411
Release Date:October 1996
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:194 Pages
Weight:0.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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