This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of "New Comedy," the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. It looks at the quiet domestic dramas of Menander, the farces of Plautus, and the comedies of Terence. An authoritative Introduction sets the papers, which are by leading experts in their field, in context and explores connections between them thus examining the legacy for modern comedies. All Latin and Greek is translated.
This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of "New Comedy," the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. It looks at the quiet domestic dramas of Menander, the farces of Plautus, and the comedies of Terence. An authoritative Introduction sets the papers, which are by leading experts in their field, in context and explores connections between them thus examining the legacy for modern comedies. All Latin and Greek is translated.
* Introduction * I. Greek Antecedents * 1: Bernard Knox: Euripidean Comedy * II. Menander * 2: E. W. Handley: The Conventions of the Comic Stage and Their Exploitation By Menander * 3: David Wiles: Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy * 4: P. G. McC. Brown: Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy * 5: N. J. Lowe: Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos * III. Plautus * 6: Erich Gruen: Plautus and the Public Stage * 7: Gregor Vogt-Spira: Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some Considerations * 8: W. S. Anderson: Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language * 9: Erich Segal: The Menaechmi: Roman Comedy of Errors * 10: Holt Parker: Crucially Funny, or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus Callidus and Jokes About Torture * 11: D. Konstan: Aulularia: City-State and Individual * 12: A. R. Sharrock: The Art of Deceit: Pseudolus and the Nature of Reading * 13: Timothy J. Moore: The Theatre of Plautus: Playing to the Audience * 14: Florence Dupont: The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus' Amphitruo * 15: Niall Slater: Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre * IV. Terence * 16: Walther Ludwig: The Originality of Terence and His Greek Models * 17: Sander M. Goldberg: The Dramatic Balance of Terence's Andria * 18: Dwora Gilula: Terence's Hecyra: A Delicate Balance of Suspense and Dramatic Irony * 19: J. A. Barsby: Problems of Adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence * 20: J. C. B. Lowe: The Intrigue of Terence's Self-Tormentor * 21: W. Geoffrey Arnott: Phormio parasitus: A Study in Dramatic Methods of Characterization
* Introduction * I. Greek Antecedents * 1: Bernard Knox: Euripidean Comedy * II. Menander * 2: E. W. Handley: The Conventions of the Comic Stage and Their Exploitation By Menander * 3: David Wiles: Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy * 4: P. G. McC. Brown: Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy * 5: N. J. Lowe: Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos * III. Plautus * 6: Erich Gruen: Plautus and the Public Stage * 7: Gregor Vogt-Spira: Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some Considerations * 8: W. S. Anderson: Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language * 9: Erich Segal: The Menaechmi: Roman Comedy of Errors * 10: Holt Parker: Crucially Funny, or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus Callidus and Jokes About Torture * 11: D. Konstan: Aulularia: City-State and Individual * 12: A. R. Sharrock: The Art of Deceit: Pseudolus and the Nature of Reading * 13: Timothy J. Moore: The Theatre of Plautus: Playing to the Audience * 14: Florence Dupont: The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus' Amphitruo * 15: Niall Slater: Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre * IV. Terence * 16: Walther Ludwig: The Originality of Terence and His Greek Models * 17: Sander M. Goldberg: The Dramatic Balance of Terence's Andria * 18: Dwora Gilula: Terence's Hecyra: A Delicate Balance of Suspense and Dramatic Irony * 19: J. A. Barsby: Problems of Adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence * 20: J. C. B. Lowe: The Intrigue of Terence's Self-Tormentor * 21: W. Geoffrey Arnott: Phormio parasitus: A Study in Dramatic Methods of Characterization
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