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BARBARIAN PLAY Plautus' Roman Comedy
by Anderson, William S
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0802079415
- ISBN 13
- 9780802079411
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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. Very Good. 1996. Softcover. 0802079415 . Faint creasing to spine. Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; 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 how Plautus diminished the traditional importance of love and replaced it with a new major theme: 'heroic badness,' especially embodied in the rogue slave (ancestor of the impudent servant, valet, or maid). Anderson then examines the unique verbal texture of Plautus' drama and demonstrates his revolt against realism, his drive to have his characters defy everyday circumstances and pit their intrepid linguistic wit against social order, their Roman extravagant impudence against Greek self-control. Finally, 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. ; Robson Classical Lectures; 194 pages .
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- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19090
- Title
- BARBARIAN PLAY Plautus' Roman Comedy
- Author
- Anderson, William S
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0802079415
- ISBN 13
- 9780802079411
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 0802079415, Plays & Drama, Roman Comedy, Latin Literature, Plautus
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