The New Comedy of Greece and Rome

by Richard L. Hunter

Book Overview

In writing this book on the plays of New Comedy the author's aim is to fill a gap in the existing literature by concentrating on what one might look for in watching and reading these plays and why such an exercise might be pleasurable. The social comedy of Menander, Plautus and Terence provided a style of comic drama which was to prove the root of all subsequent western comedy. Dr Hunter gives a literary account of this drama, placing it in its ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521316529
• ISBN13: 9780521316521
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"