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Comedy and the Rise of Rome

Comedy and the Rise of Rome

Paperback

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0199290288
ISBN13: 9780199290284
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 22 2005
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This volume is an original study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC. In contrast to the dominant trend of viewing the plays by reference to their largely lost Greek originals, the book adopts a historicist approach that concentrates on their effect on a contemporary audience.

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