Comic Theory in the Sixteenth CenturyUniversity of Illinois Press, 1964 - 248 pages This book reveals that Terence and the Terentian commentators furnished the principal matter for the discussion of comedy in the sixteenth century, and that the study of Terentian comedy in the first half of the century laid the main foundations of Renaissance theories of comedy. |
Contents
THE PLACE OF RHETORIC IN POETICS | 6 |
THE QUALITAtive Parts of RHETORIC | 18 |
THE QUANTITATIVE PARTS OF RHETORIC | 26 |
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