This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed
to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and
crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is
perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic,
and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the
overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we
conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also
includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the
Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular
theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place
of Laberius' work within its historical and literary context. This
is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the
first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic,
metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective.
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