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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    18 December 2009
    24 September 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511635588
    9780521761819
    9781107403871
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511635588
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.68kg, 334 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.49kg, 334 Pages
    • Series:
    The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
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    Series:
    The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
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    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. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

    Reviews

    "...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

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