Behind the Mask

Character and Society in Menander

Bibliographic Data

ID19941972
AuthorsAngela M Heap, J P Taylor (0000-0002-0931-5215), John Taylor (0000-0002-9269-3144), Mark Edwards (0000-0001-7457-4793), Barbara Graziosi, Frederick Jones, Rebecca Armstrong (0000-0003-4146-7427), Rebecca M Armstrong (0000-0003-0764-8857), Brian W Breed, Brian Breed, Maria Pretzler, Alison Keith (0009-0005-2118-9601), Ismene Lada‐Richards, Ismene Lada-Richards, Carole E Newlands, Robert Shorrock, Rex Winsbury, Emily Greenwood (0000-0003-0677-7649), Johannes Haubold (0000-0003-4843-5911)
Year2019
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBehind the Mask (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350103139
OpenAlexW2966525547
ISBN9781350103139
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on papyrus. The mystery of their loss and rediscovery has raised key questions surrounding the transmission of these and other Greek texts. Theatrical masks from the fourth century BCE discovered on the island of Lipari now also provide important material with which this book examines how the plays were originally performed.

Art · Geometry · Key (lock) · Literature · Papyrus · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Mathematics

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