Comic Drama in Greece and Rome

Undergraduate

is a detailed examination of the comic dramas of ancient Greece and Rome. A selection of plays by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence will be read in English translation. Topics may include the development of ancient comedy, its literary permormative, and thematic traditions, its representation of social and historical context, its influence on later tragic drama, and on modern theatre, and film and television.