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Plautine elements in Plautus : (Plautinisches im Plautus) / Eduard Fraenkel ; translated by Tomas Drevikovsky and Frances Muecke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraenkel, Eduard, 1888-1970.
- Standardized Title:
- Plautinisches im Plautus. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Plautus, Titus Maccius--Criticism and interpretation.
- Plautus, Titus Maccius.
- Plautus, Titus Maccius--Language.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 459 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Eduard Fraenkel was one of the most influential classicists of the twentieth century. His Plautine Elements in Plautus (originally published in German in 1922) revolutionized the study of Roman comedy. It is still essential reading for students and scholars of Plautus. This translation makes it accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time. All Latin and Greek is translated, thus making the work available to a wider audience consisting of all those interested in Roman drama. The book includes a translation of the Addenda to the Italian translation published in 1960. The English translation is prefaced by an essay which gives an introduction to developments in Plautine scholarship since 1960.
- Contents:
- Comparative openings of speeches Transformation and identification motifs
- Mythological material
- Animating the inanimate
- Expansion of the dialogue
- Expansion of monologues
- Implausibility in conversations
- The predominance of the slave's role
- 'Contaminated' plays
- The nature and origins of the cantica
- Plautus as a poet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-437) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0199249105
- OCLC:
- 69671899
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