Oxford readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence
By: edited by Erich Segal.
Contributors: Segal, Erich, 1937-
Series: [Oxford readings in classical studies]
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Menander, of Athens -- Criticism and interpretation; Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Criticism and interpretation; Terence -- Criticism and interpretation; Classical drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
Other titles: Menander, Plautus, and Terence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Greek Antecedents; title: 1. Euripidean Comedy; title: BERNARD KNOX; title: II Menander; title: 2. The Conventions of the Comic Stage and Their; title: Exploitation By Menander; title: E. W. HANDLEY; title: 3. Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy; title: D. WILES; title: 4. Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy; title: P. G. MCC. BROWN; title: 5. Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos; title: N. J. LOWE; title: III Plautus; title: 6. Plautus and the Public Stage; title: ERICH GRUEN; title: 7. Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some; title: Considerations; title: GREGOR VOGT-SPIRA; title: 8. Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language; title: W. S. ANDERSON; title: 9. The Menaechmi: Roman Comedy of Errors; title: ERICH SEGAL; title: 10. Crucially Funny, or Tranio on the Couch:; title: The Servus callidus and Jokes About Torture; title: HOLT PARKER; title: 11. Aulularia: City-State and Individual; title: D. KONSTAN; title: 12. The Art of Deceit: Pseudolus and the Nature of Reading; title: A. R. SHARROCK; title: 13. The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience; title: TIMOTHY J. MOORE; title: 14. The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus'; title: Amphitruo; title: FLORENCE DUPONT; title: 15. Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre; title: NIALL W. SLATER; title: IV Terence; title: 16. The Originality of Terence and His Greek Models; title: WALTHER LUDWIG; title: 17. The Dramatic Balance of Terence's Andria; title: SANDER M. GOLDBERG; title: 18. Terence's Hecyra: A Delicate Balance of Suspense and; title: Dramatic Irony; title: DWORA GILULA; title: 19. Problems of Adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence; title: J. A. BARSBY; title: 20. The Intrigue of Terence's Self-Tormentor; title: J. C. B. LOWE; title: 21. Phormio parasitus: A Study in Dramatic Methods of; title: Characterization; title: W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT; title: Acknowledgements; title: Glossary.