The Cambridge companion to Roman comedy / edited by Martin T. Dinter.

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and com...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge companions to literature.
Other Authors: Dinter, Martin T. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Latin drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Latin drama (Comedy)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xxx, 412 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • List of extant plays by Plautus and Terence
  • Introduction: Roman comedy / Alison Sharrock
  • Part I. The World of Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence in their Roman contexts / Gesine Manuwald
  • Native Italian drama and its influence on Plautus / Costas Panayotakis
  • Roman comedy and the poetics of adaptation / Mario Telò
  • The politics of Roman comedy / Robert Germany
  • Part II. The Fabric of Roman Comedy: Stage action in Roman comedy / C. W. Marshall
  • Music and metre / Timothy J. Moore
  • Comic technique / Isabella Tardin Cardoso
  • Metatheatre / David Christenson
  • The language of Roman comedy / Evangelos Karakasis
  • Part III. The Sociology of Roman Comedy: Fathers and sons / Martin T. Dinter
  • Slaves and Roman comedy / William Fitzgerald
  • Mothers and whores / Dorota Dutsch
  • Gods and Roman comedy / Anna Clark
  • Legal laughter / Andreas Bartholomä
  • Family finances / Elaine Fantham
  • Part IV. The Reception of Roman Comedy: The reception of Republican comedy in antiquity / Gesine Manuwald
  • The manuscripts and illustration of Plautus and Terence / Beatrice Radden Keefe
  • The anti-Terentian dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim / Marek Thue Kretschmer
  • Roman comedy in early modern England / Robert S. Miola
  • Roman comedy in early modern Italy and France / Céline Candiard
  • Roman comedy in Germany (from humanism to Lessing) / Florian Hurka
  • Roman comedy on stage and screen in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Céline Candiard.