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16 - The Reception of Republican Comedy in Antiquity

Manuwald, G; (2019) 16 - The Reception of Republican Comedy in Antiquity. In: Dinter, MT, (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy. (pp. 261-275). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Green open access

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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and comic technique as well as its stagecraft and music, and then traces the genre's influence through the centuries. Roman comedy has served as a model for writers as well as artists ranging from Shakespeare to Molière and from Martin Luther to Cole Porter. Just as the Middle Ages spawned Christianised versions of Terence's comedies, in which harlots find God rather than a husband and young men become martyrs rather than never-do-well lovers, the twentieth century has also given us its take on Roman comedy with Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and numerous modern versions of Plautus' Amphitryon.

Type: Book chapter
Title: 16 - The Reception of Republican Comedy in Antiquity
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1017/9780511740466.018
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511740466.018
Language: English
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/169820
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