Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy

by William Scovil Anderson

Book Overview

In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries).

Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus), transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking family anarchy. He shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802079415
• ISBN13: 9780802079411
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher