Comedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521706094)

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.

Author: N. J. Lowe
ISBN-10: 0521706092
ISBN-13: 9780521706094
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2008
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.30d