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Description
This book contains the full text of Plautus's Rudens, supplemented with an Introduction, extensive vocabulary and detailed textual notes.
Plautus' plays were written and produced around 200B.c so he is therefore the earliest Latin writer whose work survives in bulk; he belongs to the generation that fought Hannibal. His work consisted in adapting for performances in Rome Greek comedies written a hundred years earlier for performance in Athens. Since his plays and all the other Latin comedies that we have are derived from Greek plays, so this book examines Greek drama as well as Roman.
Table of Contents
Part I
Plautus: His Date, And His Business
Ancient Drama, (I) As A Literary Type
The Greek "Old Comedy"
The" New Comedy"
Ancient Drama, (2) On The Stage Io
Staging Latin Comedy To-Day
Part II
Speaking And Singing
Metres
Latin Verse in General
The Position of the Stress-Accent
Plautine Metres, (I) Speech
Plautine Metres, (2) Song
Plautine Metres, (3) Patter
Plautine Scansion
Part III
Persons and Institutions: The Background Of Life
(I) Respectable Citizens And Their Servants
(Ii) A Country Shrine
(Iii) The Slave-Trade And The Status Of Women
(Iv) Slavery And Freedom, Litigation
(V) Money
Language Manuscripts And The Text
Rudens
Notes
Appendix A
Appendix B-The Lyric Metres of I 3-5, III 3, and IV 2-3 Select Bibliography
Vocabulary
Product details
| Published | 01 Jun 1991 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 230 |
| ISBN | 9780862920630 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 210 x 147 mm |
| Series | Latin Texts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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