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Author May, Regine, 1971-

Title Apuleius and drama : the ass on stage / Regine May
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 379 pages)
Series Oxford classical monographs
Oxford classical monographs.
Contents Introduction -- Knowledge of drama and archaism in the second century -- Drama philosophy, and rhetoric : Apuleius' minor works -- Courtroom drama : Apuleius' Apologia -- The texture of the metamorphoses -- The drama of Aristomenes and Socrates -- A parasite in a comic household -- The Risus Festival : laughing at laughter -- Cupid and Psyche : a divine comedy -- Charite : how comedies do not end -- 'Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor plautus too light' : Metamorphoses, book -- The end : Isis : Dea ex machina? -- Conclusion
Summary This book discusses the use of drama as an intertext in the work of the 2nd century Latin author Apuleius, who wrote the only complete extant Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, in which a young man is turned into a donkey by magic. Apuleius uses drama, especially comedy, as a basic underlying texture, and invites his readers to use their knowledge of contemporary drama in interpreting the fate of his protagonist and the often comic or tragic situations in which he finds himself. This book employs a close study of the Latin text and detailed comparison with the corpus of dramatic texts from antiquity, as well as discussion of stock features of ancient drama, especially of comedy, in order to explain some features of the novel which have so far baffled Apuleian scholarship, including the enigmatic ending. All Latin and Greek has been translated into English
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Apuleius. Metamorphoses.
Apuleius -- Knowledge -- Latin drama (Comedy)
SUBJECT Apuleius fast
Apuleius Madaurensis. swd
Metamorphoses (Apuleius) fast
Subject Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Latin drama (Comedy)
Intertextualität
Drama
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006023595
ISBN 9780199202928
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