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Plautus: The Comedies
T. Maccius Plautus"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature.
Plautus: Casina
Titus Maccius PlautusThe edition is intended primarily for use by students at school and university but will be of value to anyone interested in reading the play in the original.
Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus
Erich SegalThis expanded edition contains a new preface that reconsiders the work of Plautus in light of recent scholarship and also contains essays on the Amphitryon and the Captivi.
Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind
Niall W. SlaterA. S. Gratwick has recently proposed reading Curculio for the present gurgulio at Trinunimus 1016, thereby restoring a reference to the title character of what we now see to be Plautus' previous play.1 Gratwick's arguments are persuasive: ...
The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience
Timothy J. MooreAs a result, when I began to study Plautus more formally, I found the performance -centered work of critics such as Gianna Petrone and Niall Slater most congenial. Inspired by such performance critics and my own experience onstage, I have ...
Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy
William S. AndersonIn 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).
Roman Literary Culture, second edition: From Plautus to ...
Elaine FanthamFrom Plautus to Macrobius Elaine Fantham. Preface. to. the. First. Edition. Let me start with a demurral. This book does not try to be a literary history. That would demand a rare combination of synoptic vision and intimate understanding of ...
Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra ...
Plautus"This is a book worthy of high praise.
Sammlung
PlautusPlays in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introduction and introductory notes in English
Plautus and Roman Slavery
Roberta StewartThis book offers both a complete history of Roman slavery and an investigation into finding and interpreting evidence of it.
German Novellas of Realism
PreviewThen the conversation passed quickly from Plautus to the thousand discovered treasures and unrolled parchments of antiquity, and to the greatness of the century. Translated by William Guild Howard "Applaud, friends!" Flagman Thiel Gerhart ...
Roman Theatre
Timothy J. MooreTragedy in the Roman Republic Roman audiences of Plautus and Terence's day enjoyed tragic as well as comic drama. Several playwrights adapted Athenian tragedies, including those of the great fifth—century playwrights Aeschylus, ...
Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558-1642
Preview7 RichardC.Beacham cites Plautus's Amphitruo in supportof the possibility ofaroof strongenough to climbonto overat least one of the stage doors. 8 Asfor the tableau ofthewhole, Beacham says that“[t]he area in front of the three doors ...
The Taming of The Shrew: Third Series
William ShakespearePlautus PMLA Pollard PP Praz Proudfoot Quilligan Race Radway Rainolds Ranald, 'Performance' Ranald, Social ... The Overthrow of Stage-Plays (1599) Margaret Loftus Ranald, 'The performance of feminism in The Taming of the Shrew', ...
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