Plautine Elements in Plautus

Zusatztext Thanks to this new translation...the audience who will be able to benefit from Fraenkel's deep and insightful knowledge will broaden much further. Informationen zum Autor The late Eduard Fraenkel was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford, 1935-53.Frances Muecke is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Sydney.Tomas Drevikovsky is Modern Languages Master, Sydney Grammar School. Klappentext Eduard Fraenkel was one of the most influential classicists of the twentieth century. His Plautine Elements in Plautus (originally published in German in 1922) revolutionized the study of Roman comedy. It is still essential reading for students and scholars of Plautus. This translation makes it accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time. All Latin and Greek is translated, thus making the work available to a wider audience consisting of all those interested in Roman drama. The book includes a translation of the Addenda to the Italian translation published in 1960. The English translation is prefaced by an essay which gives an introduction to developments in Plautine scholarship since 1960. Zusammenfassung Eduard Fraenkel was one of the most influential classicists of the twentieth century. His Plautine Elements in Plautus (originally published in German in 1922) revolutionized the study of Roman comedy. This translation makes this seminal work accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Comparative openings of speeches 2: Transformation and identification motifs 3: Mythological material 4: Animating the inanimate 5: Expansion of the dialogue 6: Expansion of monologues 7: Implausibility in conversations 8: The predominance of the slave's role 9: `Contaminated' plays 10: The nature and origins of the cantica 11: Plautus as a poet

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• Authors: Tomas Drevikovsky, Eduard Fraenkel, Eduard (Corpus Christi Professor of Lati Fraenkel, Fraenkel Eduard, Frances Muecke
• Assisted by: Tomas Drevikovsky (Translation), Drevikovsky Tomas (Translation), Frances Muecke (Translation), Muecke Frances (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2006
• EAN: 9780199249107
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924910-7
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights