Classics and Ancient History
| CLAS3403 | The Comice Theatre of Greece and Rome (O) | 3 ch (3C) [W] |
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The development of comedy from the kômos in Greece; the reading, in English translation, of an Old Comedy by Aristophanes, a satyr-play by Euripides and a New Comedy by Menander; the development of comedy in Rome through the reading of plays by Plautus and Terence. The history of the theatre, its changing structure, conventions, the production of plays and their performance and the festivals at which they were performed. | ||
