Comedy
This paper allows study of central texts from Greco-Roman Comedy from fifth-century B.C. Athens (Aristophanes) to second-century B.C. Rome (Plautus and Terence), and of some related and central texts from English comedy.
The prescribed texts are: Aristophanes, Birds ; Menander, Dyscolos ; Plautus, Amphitryo and Menaechmi ; Terence, Adelphoe ; Gascoigne, Supposes ; Lyly, Campaspe, Mother Bombie ; Shakespeare's comedies; Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair ; Wycherley, The Country Wife ; Vanbrugh, The Relapse ; Congreve, The Double Dealer, The Way of the World ; Sheridan, The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Critic .
There will be an optional commentary question with passages from Aristophanes, Birds and Terence, Adelphoe .
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