Literary Criticism Ancient & Classical
Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1977
- Category
- Ancient & Classical
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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.