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Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.
List of contents
List of extant plays by Plautus and Terence; Introduction: Roman comedy Alison Sharrock; Part I. The World of Roman Comedy: 1. Plautus and Terence in their Roman contexts Gesine Manuwald; 2. Native Italian drama and its influence on Plautus Costas Panayotakis; 3. Roman comedy and the poetics of adaptation Mario Telò; 4. The politics of Roman comedy Robert Germany; Part II. The Fabric of Roman Comedy: 5. Stage action in Roman comedy C. W. Marshall; 6. Music and metre Timothy J. Moore; 7. Comic technique Isabella Tardin Cardoso; 8. Metatheatre David Christenson; 9. The language of Roman comedy Evangelos Karakasis; Part III. The Sociology of Roman Comedy: 10. Fathers and sons Martin T. Dinter; 11. Slaves and Roman comedy William Fitzgerald; 12. Mothers and whores Dorota Dutsch; 13. Gods and Roman comedy Anna Clark; 14. Legal laughter Andreas Bartholomä 15. Family finances Elaine Fantham; Part IV. The Reception of Roman Comedy: 16. The reception of Republican comedy in antiquity Gesine Manuwald; 17. The manuscripts and illustration of Plautus and Terence Beatrice Radden Keefe; 18. The anti-Terentian dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Marek Thue Kretschmer; 19. Roman comedy in early modern England Robert S. Miola; 20. Roman comedy in early modern Italy and France Céline Candiard; 21. Roman comedy in Germany (from humanism to Lessing) Florian Hurka; 22. Roman comedy on stage and screen in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Céline Candiard.
About the author
Martin T. Dinter is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. He is author of Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique (2013) and co-editor of A Companion to the Neronian Age (2013) as well as three volumes on Roman declamation: Reading Roman Declaration: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (2016), Reading Roman Declaration: Calpurnius Flaccus (2017) and Reading Roman Declaration: Seneca the Elder (forthcoming). He has written articles on Roman drama, Roman epic and epigram, and is currently working on a book on Cato the Elder.
Summary
Roman comedy has been a model for writers and artists ranging from Shakespeare to Martin Luther and from Moliere to Cole Porter. This volume supplies a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters written by leading scholars.
