| Description |
1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Critical Editions -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Letters on Stage -- Plautine Premises -- 1 Bacchides: A Scene of Writing -- Introduction -- Bacchides: Take One -- The Epistolary Choice -- Kinetic Letters -- Bacchides: Take Two -- Ready, Set, Write -- Bait and Switch -- A Most Convenient Lie -- An Epic Canticum -- Conclusion -- 2 Persa: Whose Play Is It Anyway? -- Introduction -- Love Letters at Close Quarters -- Believe Everything You Read -- Hall of Mirrors |
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Nothing New under the Sun -- 3 Pseudolus: Fake It Till You Make It -- Introduction -- From Phoenicium, with Love -- Much Ado About Nothing -- What's New? -- Harpax: Take Two -- Manufacturing Mimesis -- 4 Curculio: The Ring Is the/a Thing -- Introduction -- A Bad Messenger Makes Good -- Sealing the Deal -- Epistolary Transmigration -- A Trip Down Memory Lane -- In Conclusion, a Few Things about the Thing -- 5 Epidicus and Trinummus: The Roads Not Taken -- Introduction -- Part I: Epidicus -- A Change of Heart -- Starting Afresh? -- (Comic) History Repeating -- Part II: Trinummus |
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No Country for Old Men -- The Letters Meet Their Maker -- Unread Letters, Realities Undone -- Something New Under the Sun -- Genre -- Translation -- What's in a Name? -- Postscripts -- Titles in the Prologue -- In Sum -- So What? -- Appendix Text, Reading and Writing in Plautus -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Uses embedded letters to illuminate two vexed questions, the origins of Plautine comedy and the mode of Plautus' translation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Plautus, Titus Maccius fast |
| Subject |
Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
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Letters in literature.
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Latin drama (Comedy)
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Letters in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009203304 |
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9781009203302 |
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