Roman Laughter. The Comedy of Plautus.  -  SEGAL, E.,

KORTE INHOUD

Oxford University Press, NewYork/Oxford, 1968. 229p. Cloth wrps. Cover a bit stained. With pencil markings and annotations from WGA. '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 wh...
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1968 Uitgever: Oxford University Press