The illustrated afterlife of Terence's comedies (800-1200) / / by Beatrice Radden Keefe.

• Superior document: Library of the written word ; Volume 97
• VerfasserIn: Radden Keefe, Beatrice,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 97.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Widely read as school texts, the comedies by the Roman dramatist Terence have come down to us in hundreds of medieval copies. Fourteen of the manuscripts produced between 800 and 1200 were given some kind of illustration. In this volume, Beatrice Radden Keefe explores the semiotics of the imagery found in the earliest illustrated Terence manuscripts, and its relationship to the iconography of comedy and theatre from antiquity. She examines six further manuscripts to show how later illustrators abandoned this imagery to varying degrees, finding new emphases and creating new layers of meaning. Illustrators of Terence, it is demonstrated here, brought a range of interests to illustrating the comedies, clarifying their narrative, incorporating social commentary and moralisation, and linking them with Christian allegorical traditions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Image Credits -- Abbreviations -- Manuscript Repositories -- Manuscript Sigla -- Editions -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1 Speculum vitae -- 2 The Manuscripts -- 1 Dramatist on Trial -- 1 Portraits -- 2 Frames -- 3 Hic -- 2 Personae -- 1 Aedicula -- 2 Scaenae frons -- 3 Swollen Faces -- 4 Lascivious Women -- 3 Sosia Libertus, Davus Servus -- 1 Doubling -- 2 Ne quid nimis -- 3 Mala mens, malus animus -- 4 Denial of Blame -- 4 What's the Getup? -- 1 Chaerea pro eunucho -- 2 Habitu mutato -- 3 Gnathonists -- 5 Calliopius Recitator -- 1 Phantom -- 2 Auctoritate audiebatur -- 3 Adversaries -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index -- Illustrations.