T. Macci Plauti Comoediae 4 Volume Set

The works of Latin comedic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus owe their modern reputation to this monumental four-volume edition.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (Edited by), Titus Maccius Plautus (Author)

9781108015707, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 8 July 2010

3728 pages
35.5 x 48.5 x 18.5 cm, 6 kg

The foundation for the modern study of Titus Maccius Plautus rests on this monumental four-volume edition, begun by the eminent German philologist Friedrich Ritschl and completed by his colleagues Gustav Loewe, Georg Goetz, and Fritz Schöll. Scrupulously edited from existing manuscripts, including the famed Ambrosian palimpsest, this edition offers valuable insights into the metrics, literary and historical contexts, and textual history of the Latin comedic playwright. Each play is provided with a thorough preface, analysing the work's structures and themes and explaining its reconstruction from manuscript. A central contribution to the study of Plautine drama, Ritschl's Comoediae is also a remarkable achievement of textual criticism, a model of nineteenth-century philology at its most ambitious.

Volume 1: Trinummus edited by Friedrich Ritschl
Epidicus edited by Georg Goetz
Curculio edited by Georg Goetz
Asinaria edited by Georg Goetz and Gustav Loewe
Truculentus edited by Fritz Schöll. Volume 2: Aulularia edited by Georg Goetz
Amphitruo edited by Georg Goetz and Gustav Loewe
Mercator edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Georg Goetz
Stichus edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Georg Goetz
Poenlus edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Georg Goetz and Gustav Loewe. Volume 3: Bacchides edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Georg Goetz
Captivi edited by Fritz Schöll
Rudens edited by Fritz Schöll
Pseudolus edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Georg Goetz
Menaechmi edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Fritz Schöll. Volume 4: Casina edited by Fritz Schöll
Miles Gloriosus edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Georg Goetz
Persa edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Fritz Schöll
Mostellaria edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Fritz Schöll
Cistellaria edited by Friedrich Ritschl, revised by Fritz Schöll
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Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]