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Reading Roman Comedy - Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (Hardcover)
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Reading Roman Comedy - Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (Hardcover)
Series: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
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For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex
metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy has only
recently begun to establish itself in the mainstream of Classical
literary criticism. Where most recent books stress the original
performance as the primary location for the encountering of the
plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the
activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading
necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance.
The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with
programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the
extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in
this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous
artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their
differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.
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