GRST 341 - Topics in Latin Literature

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2014/15b: The World of Plautus: Plautus, the first master of Roman comedy, adapted his Greek models to enhance the role of music, increase the element of farce, and highlight tensions that reflected his own society’s concerns regarding love and marriage, slavery, greed, ambition, and other matters. His exuberant expression of basic human emotions, his cast of colorful characters, and his humorous exploitation of misunderstanding, trickery, and disguise have influenced the development of western comedy from Shakespeare to the TV sitcom. In this course we read a complete play of Plautus in Latin and other plays in English translation. Mr. Brown.

Prerequisites: two 200-level courses or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.