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T. Macci Plauti Comoediae

Titus Maccius Plautus author Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th Jul '10

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The works of Latin comedic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus owe their modern reputation to this monumental four-volume edition.

The works of Latin comedic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus owe their modern reputation to this monumental four-volume edition, begun by the eminent philologist Friedrich Ritschl. Volume 1 (1871–81) includes Ritschl's edition of Trinummus, the only play he completed before his death, together with Epidicus, Curculio, Asinaria, and Truculentus.The foundation for the modern study of Titus Maccius Plautus rests on this monumental four-volume edition, begun by the eminent German philologist Friedrich Ritschl and completed by his colleagues Gustav Loewe, Georg Goetz, and Fritz Schöll. Scrupulously edited from existing manuscripts, including the famed Ambrosian palimpsest, this edition offers valuable insights into the metrics, literary and historical contexts, and textual history of the Latin comedic playwright. Volume 1 (1871–1881) includes Ritschl's indispensable overview of his critical method and his introduction to Trinummus, the only play he finished editing before his death, together with editions of Epidicus, Curculio, Asinaria, and Truculentus. Each play is provided with a preface, analysing the work's structures and themes and explaining its reconstruction from manuscript. A central contribution to the study of Plautine drama, Ritschl's Comoediae is also a remarkable achievement of textual criticism, a model of nineteenth-century philology at its most ambitious.

ISBN: 9781108015622

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 42mm

Weight: 940g

828 pages