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Barbarian Play : Plautus' Roman Comedy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (195 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442671171
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Barbarian Play:Plautus' Roman ComedyDDC classification:
  • 872/.01
LOC classification:
  • PA6585 .A534 1993
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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