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Reading Roman Comedy - Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (Paperback)
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Reading Roman Comedy - Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (Paperback)
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 is now
established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism.
Where most 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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