Letters in Plautus: Writing Between the Lines

ISBN-13: 9781009168519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 300 str.

Emilia A. (New York University) Barbiero

Opis

Uses embedded letters to illuminate two vexed questions, the origins of Plautine comedy and the mode of Plautus' translation.

Spis treści

List of Critical Editions; Note on the Text; Introduction; 1. Bacchides: A Scene of Writing; 2. Persa: Whose Play Is It Anyway?; 3. Pseudolus: Fake It Till You Make it; 4. Curculio: The Ring Is a/the Thing; 5. Epidicus and Trinummus: The Roads Not Taken; Postscripts; Appendix: Text, Reading and Writing in Plautus; Bibliography.