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
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