Comedy

Comedy offers a concise, accessible guide to the study of Greek and Roman comedy in the light of current scholarship.

N. J. Lowe (Author)

9780521706094, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 September 2008

176 pages
23 x 15.4 x 0.8 cm, 0.26 kg

Comedy is the classical world's most resilient and durable theatrical tradition. This volume offers a concise, accessible guide to the study of Greek and Roman comedy in light of current scholarship. It surveys the complex literary, theatrical, and cultural history of the classical genre from its beginnings to the death of Terence, with an overview of the work of each author and introductions to all the surviving plays of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence, alongside discussions of lost works and of theories of comedy ancient and modern, with concise guides to the extensive modern bibliography.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]