Plautus: Amphitruo

ISBN-13: 9780521459976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str.

Titus Maccius Plautus;Plautus; David M. Christenson

Opis

This is the first edition of Platus' Amphitruo to appear in English for approximately forty years. It contains introductory essays, Latin text and a line-by-line commentary. Students will find this an indispensable tool in reading and translating the play, which was enormously popular in antiquity and has inspired modern adaptations by Moliere, Giraudoux and Harold Pinter, among others. Dr. Christenson makes use of both current critical approaches to theater and traditional classical scholarship to offer many new insights into this delightful comedy.

Recenzje

'This is one of the most useful editions of Roman drama that have appeared in recent years … the volume comprises eighty pages of a well-structured introduction and nearly two hundred pages of informative and illuminating commentary.' Mnemosyne

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Plautus' life and times; 2. Roman comedy; 3. The play's the thing; 4. Background and sources; 5. Music, meter, and scansion; 6. Play without end; 7. Transmission of the text; T. MACCI PLAVTI AMPHITRVO; Commentary.