Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy

This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus’s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and sets Plautus’s reception apart from that of the quite different dramatist Terence. The latter half takes up the Plautine traits that appear in the practice of English comic dramatists ca. 1500–1640.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Humanist Debate on Comedy
Chapter 2: Reception in Northern Europe and England
Chapter 3: Plautus and English Comedy: Points of Comparison in Essentials
Chapter 4: Plautus and English Comedy: Talking through Scenes
Chapter 5: Plautus and English Comedy: Further Points of Comparison
Conclusion: "Nothing is Said that has not been said before"
Bibliography

About the author

Richard F. Hardin is professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Kansas.

Product details

• Authors: Richard F. Hardin
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2017
• EAN: 9781683931287
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-128-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 493 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama