Roman Laughter

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus
AuthorErich Segal
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publication date
1968

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus is a book by Erich Segal, published by the Harvard University Press in 1968. It is a scholarly study of the work of the ancient Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus,[1] whose "twenty complete comedies constitute the largest extant corpus of classical dramatic literature".[2]

James W. Halporn, in a review in The Classical Journal, criticised Segal's "serious misunderstanding of Freudian psychology and his real lack of grasp of important Plautine scholarship" which in Halporn's view made the work as a whole "superficial, inaccurate, and misleading".[3]

References

  1. ^ John, Whitehorne (1992). "Erich Segal, "Roman Laughter. The Comedy of Plautus" (Book Review)". Ancient History Resources for Teachers. 22 (1). North Ryde: Macquarie University.
  2. ^ Segal, Erich (1968). Roman laughter; the comedy of Plautus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 1.
  3. ^ Halporn, James W. (1970). "Review of Roman Laughter, the Comedy of Plautus". The Classical Journal. 65 (5): 234–236. ISSN 0009-8353.


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