Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy
Title | Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Richard F. Hardin |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2017-11-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1683931297 |
The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution of Plautus, detached from his fellow Roman dramatist Terence, and seen in the context of that European revival, first as it took shape on the Continent. The heart of the book, with special focus on English comedy ca. 1560 to 1640, analyzes elements of Plautine technique during the period, as differentiated from native and Terentian, considering such points of comparison as dialogue, asides, metadrama, observation scenes, characterization, and atmosphere. This is the first book to cover this ground, raising such questions as: How did comedy rather suddenly progress from the interludes and brief plays of the early sixteenth century to longer, more complex plays? What did “Plautus” mean to playwrights and readers of the time? Plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton are foregrounded, but many other comedies provide illustration and support.
Three Comedies
Title | Three Comedies PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780819198150 |
The special genius of the Roman comic poet Plautus is the wedding of native Italian farce with the mature and polished constructions of Greek comedy. The three plays translated in this book all contain that almost inevitable kernel of Greek comic plot: the love affair. But they have little else in common. In the first, a self-inflating soldier tries to live up to his image of himself as a lover. In the second, a beautiful maiden is rescued from an evil pimp. And in the third, an ill-starred husband fancies himself in love with his wife's young housemaid. Clever, or at least ambitious, slaves tend to move the action, in which the rudeness of farce merges with exuberant wit, satire, and parody.
The Comedies of Plautus
Title | The Comedies of Plautus PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN |
The Comedies of Plautus; Volume 1
Title | The Comedies of Plautus; Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781017457704 |
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Plautus
Title | Plautus PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | Bantam Classics |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1984-12 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780553211696 |
Five Comedies
Title | Five Comedies PDF eBook |
Author | Plautus |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1999-03-12 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780872203624 |
"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.
The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley
Title | The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Maccius Plautus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | |
ISBN |