The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Author: Martin Revermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521760283

This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.

Nature of Roman Comedy

Nature of Roman Comedy
Author: George E. Duckworth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400872375

This 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.

Greek and Roman Comedy

Greek and Roman Comedy
Author: Shawn O'Bryhim
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0292778821

Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights—the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent theme in the play, and a bibliography of selected readings about the play and playwright. This range of material, rare in a single volume, provides several reading and teaching options, from the study of a single author to an overview of the entire Classical comedic tradition. The plays have been translated for readability and fidelity to the original text by established Classics scholars. Douglas Olson provides the translation and commentary for Aristophanes' Acharnians, Shawn O'Bryhim for Menander's Dyskolos, George Fredric Franco for Plautus' Casina, and Timothy J. Moore for Terence's Phormio.

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy
Author: Martin T. Dinter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107002109

Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

Catullus and Roman Comedy

Catullus and Roman Comedy
Author: Christopher B. Polt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108879578

In the past century, scholars have observed a veritable full cast of characters from Roman comedy in the poetry of Catullus. Despite this growing recognition of comedy's allusive presence in Catullus' work, there has never been an extended analysis of how he engaged with this foundational Roman genre. This book sketches a more coherent picture of Catullus' use of Roman comedy and shows that individual points of contact with the theatre in his corpus are part of a larger, more sustained poetic program than has been recognized. Roman comedy, it argues, offered Catullus a common cultural vocabulary, drawn from the public stage and shared with his audience, with which to explore and convey private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry. It also demonstrates that Roman comedy continued to present writers after the second century BCE with a meaningful source of social, cultural, and artistic value.