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This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very essence of comedy is social," writes David Konstan, "and in the complex movement of its plots we may be able to discern the linea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konstan, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1983.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plautus, Titus Maccius.
Terentius Afer, Publius.
Komödie.
Interpretation
Aufsatzsammlung
Theater.
Latin drama (Comedy)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
Theâtre > Rome.
Theâtre > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500.
Comedie latine > Histoire et critique.
Theater > Rome.
Theater > History > To 500.
Latin drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Latein.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Aulularia: city-state and individual
  • Asinaria: the family
  • Captivi: city-state and nation
  • Rudens: city-state Utopia
  • Cistellaria: noncitizen order
  • Phormio: citizen disorder
  • Hecyra: ironic comedy
  • Truculentus: satiric comedy.

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