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Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence
Erich Segal
308 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-872193-2
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Paperback
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21 March 2002
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- The only book to deal with three 'New Comedy' dramatists.
- Shows how modern comedy evolved from its Greek and Latin antecedents.
This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. Earlier authors like Aristophanes wrote in a completely different style: raucous, bawdy, fantastical, and vaudeville.
Menander (of whom Plutarch said, 'what other reason would a cultivated man have to go to the theatre?') and his contemporaries presented civilised, urban comedies based on the themes of quiet domestic dramas.
The Romans adapted these comedies giving them their own farcical spin. Though they based their comedies on
Greek originals, Plautus referred to them as 'barbarian versions'; they were mockeries on Hellenistic themes.
Terence, by contrast, is more like Menander, whose plays he followed with some fidelity, but without success. The Romans did not crave realism, they wanted a good laugh and Terence- though he could have done so- refused to pander to their vulgar tastes. Yet he got his revenge. It was Terence who provided the touchstone boy-meets-girl plots which still appear today in various guises on the silver screen.
An authoritative Introduction sets the papers, which are by leading experts in their field, in context and explores connections between them thus examining the legacy for modern comedies. All Latin and Greek is
translated.Readership: Student and scholars interested in classical literature especially Greek and Latin comedy. In particular the book focuses on Menander, Plautus, and Terence.
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Erich Segal, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford Contributors:
Erich Segal: Wolfson College, Oxford
Bernard Knox: Harvard Centre for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC
E. W. Handley: Trinity College, Cambridge
David Wiles: Department of Drama, Theatre and Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
P. G. McC. Brown: Trinity College, Oxford
N. J. Lowe: Department of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London
Erich Gruen: Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Gregor Vogt-Spira: Institut Fur Altertumswissenschaften,
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat
W. S. Anderson: Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Holt Parker: Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
D. Konstan: Department of Classics, Brown University
A. R. Sharrock: Department of Classics, University of Manchester
Timothy J. Moore: Department of Classics, University of Texas, Austin
Florence Dupont: Universite Paris
Niall Slater: Department of Classics, Emory University
Walther Ludwig
Sander M. Goldberg: Department of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
Dwora Gilula
J. A. Barsby: Department of Classics, University of Otago, New Zealand
J. C. B. Lowe
W. Geoffrey
Arnott: formerly of the Department of Classics, University of Leeds
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"... a welcome addition to the study of "New Comedy" ... a very useful book ... the collection should help to dispel the myth that these comedies all tell 'the same basic story'." - The Journal of Classics Teaching
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Erich Segal: Introduction
I. Greek Antecedents
1: Bernard Knox: Euripidean Comedy
II. Menander
2: E. W. Handley: The Conventions of the Comic Stage and Their Exploitation By Menander
3: David Wiles: Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy
4: P. G. McC. Brown: Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy
5: N. J. Lowe: Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos
III. Plautus
6: Erich Gruen: Plautus and the Public Stage
7: Gregor Vogt-Spira: Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some Considerations
8: W. S. Anderson: Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language
9: Erich Segal: The Menaechmi: Roman Comedy of Errors
10: Holt Parker: Crucially Funny, or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus Callidus and Jokes About Torture
11: D. Konstan: Aulularia: City-State and Individual
12: A. R. Sharrock: The Art of Deceit: Pseudolus and the Nature of Reading
13: Timothy J. Moore: The Theatre of Plautus: Playing to the Audience
14: Florence Dupont: The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus' Amphitruo
15: Niall Slater: Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre
IV. Terence
16: Walther Ludwig: The Originality of Terence and His Greek Models
17: Sander M. Goldberg: The Dramatic Balance of Terence's Andria
18: Dwora Gilula: Terence's Hecyra: A Delicate Balance of Suspense and Dramatic Irony
19: J. A. Barsby: Problems of Adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence
20: J. C. B. Lowe: The Intrigue of Terence's Self-Tormentor
21: W. Geoffrey Arnott: Phormio parasitus: A Study in Dramatic Methods of Characterization
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