A Plautus Reader
Author | : John Henderson |
Publisher | : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 161041022X |
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Author | : John Henderson |
Publisher | : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 161041022X |
Author | : Plautus |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0299219933 |
Asses, asses, and more asses! This new edition of Plautus' rumbustious comedy provides the complete original Latin text, witty scholarly commentary, and an English translation that both complements and explicates Plautus' original style. John Henderson reveals this play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: to sex, money, and family structure; to masculinity and social standing; to senility and partying; and to jokes, lies, and idiocy. The translation remains faithful to Plautus' syllabic style for reading aloud, as well as to his humorous colloquialisms and wordplay, providing readers with a comfortable affinity to Plautus himself. An indispensable teaching and learning tool for the study of Roman New Comedy, this edition includes comprehensive commentary, useful indexes, and a pronunciation guide that will help readers of all levels understand and appreciate Plautus and his era.
Author | : Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800642881 |
Author | : Michael Fontaine |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0195341449 |
Combining textual and literary evidence, this book argues that many Plautine jokes, puns, and names of characters were misunderstood in antiquity. By examining the comedian's tendency to make up and misuse words, Fontaine elucidates many new jokes and argues for a sophisticated, Hellenistic Plautus who wrote for a sophisticated Roman audience.
Author | : Richard F. Hardin |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2017-11-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1683931297 |
The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution of Plautus, detached from his fellow Roman dramatist Terence, and seen in the context of that European revival, first as it took shape on the Continent. The heart of the book, with special focus on English comedy ca. 1560 to 1640, analyzes elements of Plautine technique during the period, as differentiated from native and Terentian, considering such points of comparison as dialogue, asides, metadrama, observation scenes, characterization, and atmosphere. This is the first book to cover this ground, raising such questions as: How did comedy rather suddenly progress from the interludes and brief plays of the early sixteenth century to longer, more complex plays? What did “Plautus” mean to playwrights and readers of the time? Plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton are foregrounded, but many other comedies provide illustration and support.
Author | : Alison Sharrock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139482645 |
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.
Author | : Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | : Bantam Classics |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1984-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780553211696 |
Author | : Roberta Stewart |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-05-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405196289 |
This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery – and not simply masters or slaves – we need to see the interactions of individuals who speak to each other, a rare kind of evidence from the ancient world. Plautus’ comedies could be our most reliable source for reconstructing the lives of slaves in ancient Rome. By reading literature alongside the historical record, we can conjure a thickly contextualized picture of slavery in the late third and early second centuries bce, the earliest period for which we have such evidence. The book discusses how slaves were captured and sold; their treatment by the master and the community; the growth of the conception of the slave as “other than human,” and as chattel; and the problem of freedom for both slaves and society.
Author | : Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781020116148 |
This classic play by Plautus tells the story of a cunning slave who tries to help his young master win back his lover from the man who has stolen her. It is a tale of love, betrayal and mistaken identities, with plenty of humor and wordplay along the way. Jacob's translation of the play into German is widely regarded as one of the best ever made. This book will appeal to lovers of classic literature and drama. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Plautus |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141911220 |
One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and The Pot of Gold, whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice. Throughout, Plautus breathes new, brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins, scheming slaves, bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values.