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Literary Criticism Ancient & Classical

Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure

by (author) E.J.H. Greene

Publisher
The University of Alberta Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1977
Category
Ancient & Classical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888640185
    Publish Date
    Jan 1977
    List Price
    $5.00

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Description

The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.

About the author

Edward Joseph Hollingsworth Greene (1913-1995) was a professor emeritus of Roman Languages at the University of Alberta.

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