Drama in the Gutter
| Dates: | 28 January 2015 |
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| Times: | 17:30 - 18:45 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | General public |
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| Speaker: | Costas Panayotakis |
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Manchester Classical Association Lecture.
Most people nowadays associate Roman comedy with the plays of the celebrated playwrights Plautus and Terence, who influenced generations of dramatic and non-dramatic Roman authors, the educational curriculum of the empire and late antiquity, and European theatre. But this presentation will focus on types of Latin comedies that were a big hit on the Roman stage in the first century BC and beyond: they seem to have been vulgar in subject-matter, uncouth in vocabulary, and hugely controversial for various reasons. They have come down to us only in fragments.
(Please note: this talk will contain some strong language and 'adult themes'!)
Speaker
Costas Panayotakis
Role: Reader in Classics
Organisation: University of Glasgow
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Samuel Alexander Building
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