The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy 1st edition by Martin Dinter ISBN 1107002109 978-1107002104

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ISBN 10: 1107002109
ISBN 13: 978-1107002104
Author: Martin Dinter

  The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and comic technique as well as its stagecraft and music, and then traces the genre’s influence through the centuries. Roman comedy has served as a model for writers as well as artists ranging from Shakespeare to Molière and from Martin Luther to Cole Porter. Just as the Middle Ages spawned Christianised versions of Terence’s comedies, in which harlots find God rather than a husband and young men become martyrs rather than never-do-well lovers, the twentieth century has also given us its take on Roman comedy with Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and numerous modern versions of Plautus’ Amphitryon.

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy 1st Table of contents:

Part I The World of Roman Comedy

1 Plautus and Terence in Their Roman Contexts

2 Native Italian Drama and Its Influence on Plautus

3 Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation

4 The Politics of Roman Comedy

Part II The Fabric of Roman Comedy

5 Stage Action in Roman Comedy

6 Music and Metre

7 Comic Technique

8 Metatheatre

9 The Language of Roman Comedy

Part III The Sociology of Roman Comedy

10 Fathers and Sons

11 Slaves and Roman Comedy

12 Mothers and Whores

13 Gods and Roman Comedy

14 Legal Laughter

15 Family Finances

Part IV The Reception of Roman Comedy

16 The Reception of Republican Comedy in Antiquity

17 The Manuscripts and Illustration of Plautus and Terence

18 The Anti-Terentian Dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

19 Roman Comedy in Early Modern England

20 Roman Comedy in Early Modern Italy and France

21 Roman Comedy in Germany (from Humanism to Lessing)

22 Roman Comedy on Stage and Screen in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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