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Oxford readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence
edited by Erich Segal
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; Oxford University Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0198721927   DDC: 872.0109   LCC: PA3028  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Euripidean comedy / Bernard Knox -- Conventions of the comic stage
and their exploitation by Menander / E.W. Handley -- Marriage and
prostitution in classical New Comedy / D. Wiles -- Love and marriage
in Greek New Comedy / P.G. McC. Brown -- Tragic space and comic
timing in Menander's Dyskolos / N.J. Lowe -- Plautus and the public
stage / Erich Gruen -- Traditions of theatrical improvisation in
Plautus: some considerations / Gregor Vogt-Spira -- Plautus' mastery
of comic language / W.S. Anderson -- Menaechmi: Roman comedy of
errors / Erich Segal -- Crucially funny, or Tranio on the couch: the
Servus callidus and jokes about torture / Holt Parker -- Aulularia:
city-state and individual / D. Konstan -- Art of deceit: Pseudolus
and the nature of reading / A.R. Sharrock -- Theater of Plautus:
playing to the audience / Timothy J. Moore -- Theatrical significance
of duplication in Plautus' Amphitruo / Florence Dupont -- Amphitruo,
Bacchae, and metatheatre / Niall W. Slater -- Originality of Terence
and his Greek models / Walther Ludwig -- Dramatic balance of
Terence's Andria / Sander M. Goldberg -- Terence's Hecyra: a delicate
balance of suspense and dramatic irony / Dwora Gilula -- Problems of
adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence / J.A. Barsby -- Intrigue of
Terence's Self-tormentor / J.C.B. Lowe -- Phormio parasitus: a study
in dramatic methods of characterization / W. Geoffrey Arnott.

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Classification:

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Dewey Class: 872.0109 -- Latin dramatic poetry & drama
LCC Number: PA3028

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xxvii, 280 p. ; 23 cm.

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