Title: Laughing Awry
Description: 'Laughing Awry' offers a comprehensive overview of key themes in the interpretation of the plays of Plautus, and explores the connections between deception, desire, slavery, genre, and audience. It attempts to offer an account of the mechanisms of Plautus' humour and the uncomfortable origins of laughter.
Subjects: Plautus, titus maccius, Latin drama, history and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Latin drama, History and criticism, Latin drama (Comedy), Tragicomedy