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IDENTITY AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN TERENTIAN COMEDY: CASE STUDIES OF ‘STOCK’ CHARACTER ADAPTATION

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dc.contributor.authorDavis, Samantha
dc.contributor.chairFontaine, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGiannella, Nicoleen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRusten, Jeffreyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-31T21:18:46Z
dc.date.available2024-01-31T21:18:46Z
dc.date.issued2023-05
dc.description.abstractThis project is a reexamination of Terence’s comedies as creative literature, rather thangeneric plays produced via a combination of mechanical translation of Greek sources and a perfunctory use of Plautine features. It is not possible to establish with certainty the full extent to which Terence adapts Greek source material. Nevertheless, I consider the plays in their entirety as Terence’s and assign all responsibility for the final form of their construction to the playwright: Terence is not a mere translator. Hutcheon stresses the importance of context in adaptation, she rightfully argues that “context conditions meaning.”1 The process of adaptation presents an opportunity for the insertion of contemporary relevant social and political material into the play and therefore political interpretations naturally occur. My interpretations of Terentian allusions owe to Hinds who argues that the very act of recognizing an allusion confirms its existence.2 This study is the first to offer in-depth analyses of multiple stock character types in Terence’s comedies, discussed both in the broad contexts of the Greek and Roman comic traditions as well as in their specific manifestations throughout the Terentian corpus. In it, I examine comic texts for information about the identities of “stock” character types in Terence alongside the types of social identities they might relate or respond to. 1 2012. 2 1998: 10.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/3qpf-5t36
dc.identifier.otherDavis_cornellgrad_0058F_13654
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:13654
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/114015
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectComedyen_US
dc.subjectEarly Latin Literatureen_US
dc.subjectGreek Comedyen_US
dc.subjectRoman Comedyen_US
dc.subjectStock Charactersen_US
dc.subjectTerenceen_US
dc.titleIDENTITY AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN TERENTIAN COMEDY: CASE STUDIES OF ‘STOCK’ CHARACTER ADAPTATIONen_US
dc.typedissertation or thesisen_US
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810.2
thesis.degree.disciplineClassics
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.namePh. D., Classics

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