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Contribution to the study of the roman theatrical speech

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• Petrochilos, Nikolaos

Generally speaking the Roman official attitude towards theatre and the aero« was unfavourable, although Plautus, Caecilius, Terence and Seneca were highly esteemed. Plautus in particular was much admired by the Roman people for his lively and cheerful ingenuity, readiness of his dialogue and capacity to evoke his audience’s interest in Greek life and way of living, and, at the same time, for his unique ability to unfold all the provocative world of cunning intrigues and clever deceits, of rich banquets and abysmal debauchery, of explosive quarrels and inimitable puns, of comic gestures and lovely dancing movements, and all these excellently developed in an athmosphere of genuine Italian spirit.Having all the above qualities, dressed in the Roman sense of humour, Plautus managed to be an independent and substantially original creator, in spite of the fact that all his comedies are, of course, based on the theatrical production of the Greek New Comedy.

• History and Archaeology
• Languages and Literature

• Ιστορία, Αρχαία
• Θέατρο
• Λογοτεχνία

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