Reading Roman Comedy - Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9781107403871
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40387-1
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectur; The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / 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