Classical Comedy (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140449825 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-10 |
| Language | : | Ancient Greek |
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His latest collection: Plautus: Four Comedies has just appeared in The Oxford World's Classics series. Segal--is that he enjoyed a conspicuously unsuccessful career as a long-distance runner and was at one time one of the world's best known mediocre athletes. 186-159 BC) was born at Carthage of Libyan parentage, and was brought to Rome as a young slave. He then collaborated on the famous Harvard Hasty Pudding Club show in 1958. Segal is married and has two daughters and currently lives near Oxford, England. Much of his work seems to be
Elaine said Five Stars. Thank you.. Four Stars Very good, PAC. Great Introduction Bella Maria Delorus The introduction to the developement of ancient comedy is really interesting, the plays themselves are naive what it does show is how far comedy has come with such modern works as Faulty Towers and Lazonby Trips the Light Fantastic. Of the plays I liked the Terrenc the best but as I said comedy has come a long way.
Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. Over the past quarter-century, Segal's verse translations of the Roman playwright Plautus have won considerable acclaim. Only one, The Eunuch, was a popular success in his lifetime, but he was read and admired in Roman times and throughout the
The ideal single-volume introduction to the greatest masterpieces of ancient comedy From the fifth to the second century B.C., theatrical comedy flourished in Greece and Rome. Together, these four plays capture the genius of classical comedy for students, theatergoers, actors, lovers of satire, and anyone interested in the ancient world.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This new anthology brings together four essential masterworks of the genre: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative The Birds; Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexua