Roman Laughter. The Comedy of Plautus. - SEGAL, E.,
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'Segal's stated intention in this, the first English book exclusively on Plautus, is to set the playwright in relation to contemporary Roman culture and to the comic tradition (...). The theme is that 'the holiday-occasion and the festival are parallel manifestations of the same pattern of culture'', and that 'the festive feeling, as Freud describes it, is the liberty to do what as a rule is prohibited', so that Plautine comedy, being essentially part of a holiday-occasion, may be regarded as a 'saturnalian overthrow of the Roman value-system.' (A.S. GRATWICK on the 1st ed. in The Classical Review (New Series), 1970, p.333). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.
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NewYork / Oxford, 1968. IX,229p. Original silver titled cloth. Light remains of library mark to tail spine. Library stamps to edges and first pages. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: SEGAL, E.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 1968] [Titel: Roman Laughter. The Comedy of Plautus.]
