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Author: Richard L. Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-07-11
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780521316521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first literary account of a style of comic drama which was to become the root of all subsequent Western comedy. Places the social comedy of Menander, Plautus and Terence in its ancient context and considers its universal literary qualities.
Author: Michael Fontaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 0199743541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.
Author: Martin Revermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 0521760283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-09-28
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0141959487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.
Author: George E. Duckworth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1400872375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 1994-03-14
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.
Author: Matthew Leigh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 019926676X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComedy and the Rise of Rome invites the reader to consider Roman comedy in the light of history and Roman history in the light of comedy. Plautus and Terence base their dramas on the New Comedy of fourth- and third-century BC Greece. Yet many of the themes with which they engage are peculiarly alive in the Rome of the Hannibalic war, and the conquest of Macedon. This study takes issues as diverse as the legal status of the prisoner of war, the ethics of ambush, fatherhoodand command, and the clash of maritime and agrarian economies, and examines responses to them both on the comic stage and in the world at large. This is a substantially new departure in ways of thinking about Roman comedy and one that opens it up to a far wider public than has previously been thecase.
Author: Arthur J. Pomeroy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 1118741358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who.
Author: Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1107068436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.
