Download or read book A Companion to Plautus written by Dorota Dutsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars A Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on the celebrated Old Latin period playwright. A brilliant comic poet, Plautus moved beyond writing Latin versions of Greek plays to create a uniquely Roman cultural experience worthy of contemporary scholarship. Contributions by a team of international scholars explore the theatrical background of Roman comedy, the theory and practice of Plautus’ dramatic composition, the relation of Plautus’ works to Roman social history, and his influence on later dramatists through the centuries. Responding to renewed modern interest in Plautine studies, the Companion reassesses Plautus’ works—plays that are meant to be viewed and experienced—to reveal new meaning and contemporary relevance. Chapters organized thematically offer multiple perspectives on individual plays and enable readers to gain a deeper understanding of Plautus’ reflection of, and influence on Roman society. Topics include metatheater and improvisation in Plautus, the textual tradition of Plautus, trends in Plautus Translation, and modern reception in theater and movies. Exploring the place of Plautus and Plautine comedy in the Western comic tradition, the Companion: Addresses the most recent trends in the study of Roman comedy Features discussions on religion, imperialism, slavery, war, class, gender, and sexuality in Plautus’ work Highlights recent scholarship on representation of socially vulnerable characters Discusses Plautus’ work in relation to Roman stages, actors, audience, and culture Examines the plot construction, characterization, and comic techniques in Plautus’ scripts Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series, A Companion to Plautus is an important resource for scholars, instructors, and students of both ancient and modern drama, comparative literature, classics, and history, particularly Roman history.

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association written by American Philological Association and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-

Download or read book Plautine Trends written by Ioannis N. Perysinakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, a collective volume published as a Festschrift in honour of Prof. D. Raios (University of Ioannina), aims to contribute to the current, intense discussion on Plautine drama and engage with most of the topics which lie at the forefront of recent scholarship on ‘literary Plautus’. 13 papers by experts on Roman Comedy address issues concerning a) the structure of Plautine plot in its social, historical and philosophical contexts, b) the interfaces between language and comic plot, and c) plot and language as signs of reception. Participants include (in alphabetical order): A. Augoustakis, R.R. Caston, D.M. Christenson, M. Fontaine, S. Frangoulidis, M. Hanses, E. Karakasis, D. Konstan, K. Kounaki–Philippides, S. Papaioannou, A. Sharrock, N.W. Slater, and J.T. Welsh. The papers of the volume are preceded by an introduction offering a review of the extensive literature on the subject in recent years and setting the volume in its critical context. The preface to the volume is written by R.L. Hunter. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Plautine Comedy and its reception.

Download or read book Four Comedies written by Plautus, and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Molière's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, making these the most readable and actable versions available. His introduction considers Plautus' place in ancient comedy. examines his continuing influence, and celebrates his power to entertain. Includes: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold

Download or read book Decimus Laberius written by Costas Panayotakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place of Laberius' work within its historical and literary context. This is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic, metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective.

Download or read book Roman Drama and its Contexts written by Stavros Frangoulidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their ‘context’, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.

Download or read book Moli re and the Italian Theatrical Tradition written by Philip A. Wadsworth and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amphitryon The Comedy of Asses The Pot of Gold The Two Bacchises The Captives written by Plautus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plauti Bacchides written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bacchides written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Querolus and Its Origin written by Willis James Bell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roman Comedy written by David Konstan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the lineaments and contradictions of the reigning ideas of an age." David Konstan looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra. Offering new interpretations of each, he develops a "typology of plot forms" by analyzing structural features and patterns of conventional behavior in the plays, and he relates the results of his literary analysis to contemporary social conditions. He argues that the plays address tensions that were potentially disruptive to the ancient city-state, and that they tended to resolve these tensions in ways that affirmed traditional values. Roman Comedy is an innovative and challenging book that will be welcomed by students of classical literature, ancient social history, the history of the theater, and comedy as a genre.

Download or read book Joannes Burmeister written by Michael Fontaine and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576–1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ‘inversions’ of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus’s pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance literature. This volume offers the first critical edition of the newly discoveredAulularia (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of Mater-Virgo(1621), which adapts Plautus’s Amphitryo to show the Nativity of Jesus. The introduction offers reconstructions of Susanna (based on Casina) and Asinaria(1625), Burmeister's two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus. Fontaine also provides the only biography of Burmeister based on archival sources, along with discussions of his inimitable Latinity and the perilous context of war and witch-burning in which Burmeister wrote. Burmeister's inversions bear witness to the special talent of his age for the creative reworking of Classical literature, such as Monteverdi's Poppea or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, as well as to his tumultuous times, with his views on military abuses in the Thirty Years' War prefiguring those of Grimmelshausen's Simplicius Simplicissimus.

Download or read book Prolegomena to the Adages written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay that begins this introductory volume to the Adages explores the development of the Collectanea and its transformation into the Adagiorum chiliades.

Download or read book The Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origins of European Scholarship written by Iōannēs G. Taiphakos and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Ioannis Taifacos: Preface Pierre Swiggers / Alfons Wouters: L'elaboration de la grammaire comme discipline otechniqueo Stephanos Matthaios: Das Wortartensystem der Alexandriner. Skizze seiner Entwicklungsgeschichte und Nachwirkung Christos Nifadopoulos: Herodian on the nature of olinguistic pathoso Michael von Albrecht: Latin Literature and Roman Scholarship Wolfram Ax: Zur de voce-Definition der romischen Grammatik. Eine Antwort auf Wilfried Stroh Henry David Jocelyn: The Text of Plautus, Pseud. 817-18 and the Grammarians Flavius Caper and C. Iulius Romanus Giuseppina Barabino: L'auctoritas di Plauto in Nonio Marcello Javier Uria Varela: What can we learn from place-names in Charisius' aeArs grammatica'? Louis Holtz: Prolegomenes a une edition critique du commentaire de Pompee, grammairien africain Mariarosaria Pugliarello: Lingua scritta e lingua parlata nel trattato di Martirio De b muta et v vocali Bengt Lofstedt: Nochmals zum Latein des Virgilius Maro Grammaticus Jacqueline Hamesse: Les glossaires bilingues, instruments de travail des traducteurs medievaux William O. Duba: Aristotelian Traditions in Franciscan Thought: Matter and Potency according to Scotus and Auriol Chris Schabel: Haec Ille: Citation, Quotation, and Plagiarism in 14th Century Scholasticism Farouk Grewing: Wider ein barbarisches Latein: Zu Adriano Castellis Kampf gegen die malorum auctorum imitatio zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts Ioannnis Taifacos: The Notes to the first Grammarians' corpus discovered: Helias van Putschen, 1605. An interim Report.

Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: