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Cargando... The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedypor Martin T. Dinter (Editor)
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The volume under review comes during an exciting wave of recent publications on Roman Comedy. This companion follows The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy (2014, Fontaine & Scafuro eds.) and Wiley-Blackwell’s A Companion to Terence (2013, Augoustakis & Traill eds.), and it precedes an upcoming Wiley-Blackwell companion to Plautus (2020, Franko & Dutsch eds.). Nevertheless, it differentiates itself in its aim to study the comoedia palliata as a distinctly Roman genre, thereby shifting the focus from the palliata’s relationship with its Hellenistic originals to the complexity and impact of the plays as theatrical and literary phenomena. Additionally, more-or-less equal weight is placed on the treatment of Plautus and Terence, the latter of whom has until recently been overshadowed in scholarly interest by the former. Alison Sharrock successfully conveys this approach in her introduction to the volume.
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and comic technique as well as its stagecraft and music, and then traces the genre's influence through the centuries. Roman comedy has served as a model for writers as well as artists ranging from Shakespeare to Molière and from Martin Luther to Cole Porter. Just as the Middle Ages spawned Christianised versions of Terence's comedies, in which harlots find God rather than a husband and young men become martyrs rather than never-do-well lovers, the twentieth century has also given us its take on Roman comedy with Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and numerous modern versions of Plautus' Amphitryon. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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