Plautus: Epidicus by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad - 9781350416222

Plautus: EpidicusAuthor(s): T. H. M. Gellar-Goad\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350416222, 978-1350416222\nSynopsis\nPlautus comedy Epidicus has the most convoluted, complicated and recursive plot in all known ancient Greek and Roman literature despite being shorter than all but two other plays that survive in full from ancient drama. The play is filled with doubles and triples: two soldiers, three lyre-players, two love objects, two old men, two young men, three deception plots and three pairs of scenes where one person momentously recognizes or momentously doesnt recognize someone else. \n\n Open up and read on to untwist the knots of plot, character, humor and culture that Plautus Epidicus has tied into tangles. In four trenchant, comprehensive, yet reader-friendly chapters, including the first complete study of the plays afterlife from Plautus to today, you will explore Epidicus as a case stud.