The Greek Aulularia

The Greek Aulularia PDF Author: W.E.J. Kuiper
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004326995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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The Greek Aulularia

The Greek Aulularia PDF Author: W.E.J. Kuiper
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004326995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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Aulularia

Aulularia PDF Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher: Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN: 1910572373
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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First new translation in 30 years and comprehensive commentary for over a century.

Joannes Burmeister

Joannes Burmeister PDF Author: Michael Fontaine
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462700087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576–1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ‘inversions’ of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus’s pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance literature. This volume offers the first critical edition of the newly discoveredAulularia (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of Mater-Virgo(1621), which adapts Plautus’s Amphitryo to show the Nativity of Jesus. The introduction offers reconstructions of Susanna (based on Casina) and Asinaria(1625), Burmeister's two lost or unpublished inversions of Plautus. Fontaine also provides the only biography of Burmeister based on archival sources, along with discussions of his inimitable Latinity and the perilous context of war and witch-burning in which Burmeister wrote. Burmeister's inversions bear witness to the special talent of his age for the creative reworking of Classical literature, such as Monteverdi's Poppea or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, as well as to his tumultuous times, with his views on military abuses in the Thirty Years' War prefiguring those of Grimmelshausen's Simplicius Simplicissimus.

The Greek Novella in the Classical Period

The Greek Novella in the Classical Period PDF Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy PDF Author: Michael Fontaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199743541
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 913

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.

Roman Drama and its Contexts

Roman Drama and its Contexts PDF Author: Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110455587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 593

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Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their ‘context’, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Encyclopaedia Britannica PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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“The” Encyclopaedia Britannica,or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature

“The” Encyclopaedia Britannica,or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Plautine Trends

Plautine Trends PDF Author: Ioannis N. Perysinakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110392720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, a collective volume published as a Festschrift in honour of Prof. D. Raios (University of Ioannina), aims to contribute to the current, intense discussion on Plautine drama and engage with most of the topics which lie at the forefront of recent scholarship on ‘literary Plautus’. 13 papers by experts on Roman Comedy address issues concerning a) the structure of Plautine plot in its social, historical and philosophical contexts, b) the interfaces between language and comic plot, and c) plot and language as signs of reception. Participants include (in alphabetical order): A. Augoustakis, R.R. Caston, D.M. Christenson, M. Fontaine, S. Frangoulidis, M. Hanses, E. Karakasis, D. Konstan, K. Kounaki–Philippides, S. Papaioannou, A. Sharrock, N.W. Slater, and J.T. Welsh. The papers of the volume are preceded by an introduction offering a review of the extensive literature on the subject in recent years and setting the volume in its critical context. The preface to the volume is written by R.L. Hunter. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Plautine Comedy and its reception.

History of Roman Literature

History of Roman Literature PDF Author: John Colin Dunlop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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