Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence - Couverture souple

Sharrock, Alison

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107403871 ISBN 13 : 9781107403871

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"...consistently illuminating. ...this study will be accessible to any reader with a strong interest in the subtleties of Roman comedy." --Choice

"If this book helps to open the eyes of non-specialists to the richness of Roman comedy, it will have performed a great service." --Phoenix

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107403871
• ISBN 13: 9781107403871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 334
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie