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Author:   Erich Segal (, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.40cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9780198721932

ISBN 10:   0198721935
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   21 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Erich Segal: Introduction I. Greek Antecedents 1: Bernard Knox: Euripidean Comedy II. Menander 2: E. W. Handley: The Conventions of the Comic Stage and Their Exploitation By Menander 3: David Wiles: Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy 4: P. G. McC. Brown: Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy 5: N. J. Lowe: Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos III. Plautus 6: Erich Gruen: Plautus and the Public Stage 7: Gregor Vogt-Spira: Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some Considerations 8: W. S. Anderson: Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language 9: Erich Segal: The Menaechmi: Roman Comedy of Errors 10: Holt Parker: Crucially Funny, or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus Callidus and Jokes About Torture 11: D. Konstan: Aulularia: City-State and Individual 12: A. R. Sharrock: The Art of Deceit: Pseudolus and the Nature of Reading 13: Timothy J. Moore: The Theatre of Plautus: Playing to the Audience 14: Florence Dupont: The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus' Amphitruo 15: Niall Slater: Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre IV. Terence 16: Walther Ludwig: The Originality of Terence and His Greek Models 17: Sander M. Goldberg: The Dramatic Balance of Terence's Andria 18: Dwora Gilula: Terence's Hecyra: A Delicate Balance of Suspense and Dramatic Irony 19: J. A. Barsby: Problems of Adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence 20: J. C. B. Lowe: The Intrigue of Terence's Self-Tormentor 21: W. Geoffrey Arnott: Phormio parasitus: A Study in Dramatic Methods of Characterization

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... a welcome addition to the study of New Comedy ... a very useful book ... the collection should help to dispel the myth that these comedies all tell 'the same basic story'. The Journal of Classics Teaching

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