Reading Roman Comedy - Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence

Informationen zum Autor Alison Sharrock is Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester. She is also the author of Seduction and Repetition in Ovid's Ars Amatoria 2 (1994) and Fifty Key Classical Authors (with Rhiannon Ash! 2002)! and co-editor of Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations (with Helen Morales! 2000) and The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris (with Roy Gibson and Steven Green! 2006). Klappentext This book argues that the comic plays of Plautus and Terence are sophisticated literary works requiring close attention from the reader. Zusammenfassung This book undertakes a literary analysis of the comic plays of Plautus and Terence. Despite being some of the earliest Latin literature in existence! they are argued to be sophisticated literary works which require close attention from the reader! while at the same time rewarding the audience with immediate humour. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Art and artifice; 2. Beginnings; 3. Plotting and playwrights; 4. Repeat performance; 5. Endings.

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• Authors: Alison Sharrock, Alison (University of Manchester) Sharrock, Sharrock Alison
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521761819
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76181-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: W.B. Stanford Memorial Lecture; The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights