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Barbarian Play : Plautus' Roman Comedy.

Anderson, William.

Barbarian Play : Plautus' Roman Comedy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (195 pages) - Heritage Series . - Heritage Series .

Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 1 Plautus and the Deconstruction of Menander -- 2 si amicus Diphilo aut Philemoni es: Plautus' Exploitation of Other Writers and Features of the Greek Comic Tradition -- 3 Plautus' Plotting: The Lover Upstaged -- 4 Heroic Badness (malitia): Plautus' Characters and Themes -- 5 Words, Numbers, Movement: Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language, Metre, and Staging -- 6 Plautus and His Audience: The Roman Connection -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Anderson explores the special form of metatheatre that we admire in Plautus, by which he undermines the assumptions of his Greek 'models' and replaces them with a new, confident Roman comedy.

9781442671171


Plautus, Titus Maccius-Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.

PA6585 .A534 1993

872/.01

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