COMEDY

Lowe, N. J.

ISBN 10: 0521706092 / ISBN 13: 9780521706094

Published by Published for the Classical Association at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2009

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Very light shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Comedy is the classical world's most resilient and durable theatrical tradition. This volume offers a concise, accessible guide to the study of Greek and Roman comedy in light of current scholarship. It surveys the complex literary, theatrical, and cultural history of the classical genre from its beginnings to the death of Terence, with an overview of the work of each author and introductions to all the surviving plays of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence, alongside discussions of lost works and of theories of comedy ancient and modern, with concise guides to the extensive modern bibliography. ; Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics No. 37; 44 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: COMEDY
• Publisher: Published for the Classical Association at the Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521706092
• ISBN 13: 9780521706094
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Latin Literature
  • Greek Literature

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Synopsis

Comedy is the classical world's most resilient and durable theatrical tradition. This volume offers a concise, accessible guide to the study of Greek and Roman comedy in light of current scholarship. It surveys the complex literary, theatrical, and cultural history of the classical genre from its beginnings to the death of Terence, with an overview of the work of each author and introductions to all the surviving plays of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence, alongside discussions of lost works and of theories of comedy ancient and modern, with concise guides to the extensive modern bibliography.

About the Author

Nick Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London.