Roman Laughter
1968 book by Erich Segal
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Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus is a book by Erich Segal, published by the Harvard University Press in 1968. It is a scholarly study of the work of the ancient Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus,[1] whose "twenty complete comedies constitute the largest extant corpus of classical dramatic literature".[2]
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| Author | Erich Segal |
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| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Publication date | 1968 |
James W. Halporn, in a review in The Classical Journal, criticised Segal's "serious misunderstanding of Freudian psychology and his real lack of grasp of important Plautine scholarship" which in Halporn's view made the work as a whole "superficial, inaccurate, and misleading".[3]
