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14 produkter
Spectator Politics
Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes
Inbunden, 2002
999 kr
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Spectator Politics is the first major study of metatheatre, or theatrically self-conscious performance, in Aristophanes. Using a reception-based performance criticism, Niall Slater elucidates the comic effectiveness of the earliest surviving comedies in the Western tradition. Slater demonstrates …
Plautus in Performance
The Theatre of the Mind
E-bok, 2013
1175 kr
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Plautus was Ancient Rome''s greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America''s foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of …
Plautus in Performance
The Theatre of the Mind
E-bok, 2013
1150 kr
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Plautus was Ancient Rome''s greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America''s foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of …
Terence: Andria
Av Sander M. Goldberg, C. W. Marshall m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
398 kr
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Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a vital companion to Terence's earliest comedy, Andria, highlighting its context, themes, staging and legacy. Ideal for students it assumes no knowledge of Latin, but is helpful also for …
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Av James Robson, C. W. Marshall m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
316 kr
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Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risqué humour, vibrant battle of the sexes, and themes of war and …
Plautus: Cistellaria
Av Ariana Traill, C W Marshall m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
378 kr
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This volume is the first book-length introduction to Plautus’ Cistellaria (The Jewelry Box), offering an incisive overview for both students and scholars coming to it for the first time. This play is a story of young lovers defying social norms and disapproving parents in order to be together, …
Aristophanes: Wasps
Av Craig Jendza, C. W. Marshall m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
333 kr
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This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes’ Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. At the heart of Wasps is a comic conflict between an Athenian father named Philocleon and his son Bdelycleon; at stake are issues of political …
Terence: Eunuchus
Av Gesine Manuwald, C. W. Marshall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1145 kr
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Terence’s Eunuchus (first shown on stage in the second century BCE) was extremely successful at its first performance and has been influential ever since, having inspired allusions and remakes by writers and artists from the ancient world into the modern period. This success may be partly due to …
Aristophanes: Women in the Assembly
Av Erin K. Moodie, C. W. Marshall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1145 kr
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This is the first book for a general audience about Women in the Assembly (Ekklesiazousai), whose central themes – gender, politics, theatre – still resonate today. Fed up with Athens’ political dysfunction and involvement in yet another war against Sparta, the women of the city don ridiculous …
Plautus: Poenulus
Av Thomas Biggs, C. W. Marshall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1226 kr
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Plautus’ Poenulus (The Little Carthaginian) is a work of staggering literary andhistorical significance. Performed in the long shadow of Rome’s struggle withHannibal’s Carthage, this play stages the restoration of a Carthaginian familydivided through enslavement. Set against the backdrop of a …
Euripides: Alcestis
Av Niall W. Slater, Thomas Harrison
Inbunden, 2013
1633 kr
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This open access edition explores the reception and afterlife of the Alcestis, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism. In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that …
Euripides: Alcestis
Av Niall W. Slater, Thomas Harrison
Häftad, 2013
447 kr
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This open access edition explores the reception and afterlife of the Alcestis, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism. In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that …
Intertextualität in der griechisch-römischen Komödie
Av Bernhard Zimmermann, Niall W. Slater
E-bok, 2017
326 kr
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Plautus in Performance
The Theatre of the Mind
Inbunden, 2000
1667 kr
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Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America's foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of Plautus' …
