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GebondenEngels9780472119707
3-11-2015
The first English commentary on Plautus’ unabridged text Meer
GebondenEngels9781350241787
2-10-2025
An accessible introduction to Plautus' Cistellaria, highlighting the performative, literary and socio-cultural aspects of the play. Meer
GebondenEngels9781350126763
12-1-2023
An introduction to the themes, humour and reception of Plautus’ Trinummus Meer
PaperbackEngels9781350126770
12-1-2023
GebondenEngels9781350416222
11-12-2025
First book-length study of ancient Rome’s second-shortest play, with the most intricate plot that survives from Greek and Roman drama. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781350020535
10-1-2019
PaperbackEngels9781350205383
27-7-2023
PaperbackEngels9781350092723
13-1-2022
PaperbackEngels9781107620056
8-8-2013
Originally published in 1924 as part of the Pitt Press Series, and intended for pre-university students, this book contains the Latin text of extracts from the works of the Roman comic Plautus. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521290227
13-5-1976
Plautus' Casina is a lively and well composed farce. The plot, which concerns the competition of a father and his son for the same girl and the various scurrilous tricks employed in the process, gives full scope to Plautus' inventiveness and richly comic language. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521349703
3-6-1993
Menaechmi is one of Plautus' liveliest and most entertaining comedies, the main inspiration for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Dr Gratwick's edition brings new light to bear on the interpretation of the play and on Plautus' place in the development of European comedy. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521766241
9-7-2020
Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's metapoetics. As its eponymous clever slave telegraphs his every move to spectators, Pseudolus highlights the aesthetic, social, and performative priorities of Plautine comedy: brilliant linguistic play, creative appropriation of comic tradition, interrogation of convention and social norms, the projection of an air of improvisation and a fresh comic universe, and exploration of dramatic mimesis itself. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009168519
15-12-2022
The letters in Plautus are potent tools for making and thinking about Plautine comedy inside Plautine comedy. Emilia Barbiero demonstrates that Plautus' embedded letters reify the internal performance and evince its theatricality by means of the epistolary medium's script-like ability to precipitate presence in absence. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009168526
11-7-2024
Illuminates the origins of the earliest surviving poetry written in Latin and addresses a question that has vexed readers of Plautine comedy since the birth of modern philology: how did Plautus translate? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780872203624
15-9-1999
Intended to benefit students in schools and colleges, this title contains short introductions to Roman stage conventions, and to different types of Greek and Roman comedy. Meer
GebondenEngels9780472114269
1-1-2005
PaperbackEngels9780521149716
9-7-2020
Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's metapoetics. As its eponymous clever slave telegraphs his every move to spectators, Pseudolus highlights the aesthetic, social, and performative priorities of Plautine comedy: brilliant linguistic play, creative appropriation of comic tradition, interrogation of convention and social norms, the projection of an air of improvisation and a fresh comic universe, and exploration of dramatic mimesis itself. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521459976
20-7-2000
Plautus' Amphitruo is the sole specimen of mythological burlesque in ancient comedy to come down to us in nearly complete form. This sex farce delighted Roman audiences and readers for centuries and continues to inspire adaptations to this day. Meer