The life of comedy after the death of Plautus and Terence /
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. Playwrights Plautus and Terence impressed audiences with stock characters as the young-...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2020.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1. The fabula palliata
- 2. The fabula togata and the Greek New Comic Tradition
- 3. Performance Occasions and Competing Shows
- 4. Reception through Reading and Reception through Performance
- 5. Arrangement of the Book
- Chapter 1. Reviving Roman Comedies in the Republic and Early Empire
- 1. Reperformances in the Middle Republic (240 BCE to 100 BCE)
- 2. Revivals at Public Festivals (100 BCE to 100 CE)
- 3. Comoedi in the Roman House (54 CE to 150 CE)
- 4. Writing Roman Comedies in the Late Republic and Early Empire (61 BCE to 150 CE)
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Roman Comedy in Ciceronian Oratory
- 1. Pro Caelio
- 2. In Pisonem
- 3. In Catilinam and Pro Murena
- 4. Pro Q. Roscio comoedo
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Roman Comedy in Roman Satire
- 1. Theatrical Characters in Hor. Sat. 1.1-4 and the Satirist as pater durus
- 2. Horace's Sat. 1.9 and the Sermones' Shift from Comedy into Mime
- 3. The Satirist as Davus comicus in Book 2 of the Sermones
- 4. The Satirist as Comic Slave in Persius's Fifth Satire
- 5. Roman Comedy in Juvenal
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. The Reception of Terence's Eunuchus in Roman Love Poetry
- 1. Terence's Phaedria and Vergil's Dido
- 2. Phaedria and Thais in Catullus
- 3. Phaedria and Thais in Roman Elegy
- 4. Gnatho and Parmeno as praeceptores amoris
- 5. Conclusion.
