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For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.

Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Terentius Afer, Publius --- Latin drama (Comedy) --- Comédie latine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Terence --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Plaute, --- Térence --- History and criticism --- Criticism and interpretation --- Comédie latine --- Plaute --- Plauto, Tito Maccio --- Terenz --- Terenzio Afro, Publio --- Afer, Publius Terentius --- Terentius, P. --- Afro, Publio Terencio --- Terencjusz --- Terent︠s︡iĭ, Publiĭ --- Terencio --- Terencio Afro, Publio --- Terentios --- Terenzio --- Terentius Apher, Publius --- Apher, Publius Terentius --- טרנטיוס --- Plavt, Tit Makt︠s︡iĭ --- Plautus, M. Accius --- Plautus --- Plautus, M. Attius --- Plautus, Marcus Actius --- Plautus, Marcus Accius --- Plautus, Marcus Attius --- Plauto, Marco Accio --- Plautos, Titos Makkios --- פלאוטוס --- Comedia latina --- Historia y crítica --- Crítica e interpretación --- Terenci --- Terenci, Publi --- Tereci Àfer, Publi --- Terencio, Publio --- Terencio Africano, P. --- Terencio Afer, Publio --- Plauto --- Plauto, T. M. --- Plauto, Tito Macio --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Latin drama (Comedy) - History and criticism --- Plautus, Titus Maccius - Criticism and interpretation --- Terence - Criticism and interpretation --- Plaute, 254-184 av JC --- Térence 190-159 av JC --- Terentius