Barbarian Play Plautus Roman Comedy by William S. Anderson PAPERBACK

Barbarian Play Plautus Roman Comedy\nby William S. Anderson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: William S. Anderson\nTitle: Barbarian Play Plautus Roman Comedy\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary essays\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1996\nISBN-13: 9780802079411\nISBN-10: 0802079415\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries).\nAnderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus), transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration of rollicking f.