Comedy

Comedy

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Comedy offers a concise, accessible guide to the study of Greek and Roman comedy. It surveys the literary, theatrical, political, 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 the surviving plays.

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Comedy by N J Lowe

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.
Nick Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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ISBN 13 9780521706094
ISBN 10 0521706092
Title Comedy
Author N J Lowe
Series New Surveys In The Classics
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2008-09-11
Number of pages 176
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