T C 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern
Unique number 41090
Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin
Spring, 2005, MWF 10-11, CRD 007B
Timothy Moore, WAG 14CA, 232-4161, timmoore@mail.utexas.edu
Office hours MWF 11-12:30, and by appointment

Syllabus

Questions to ponder

Timeline of Comic Playwrights

Theory of Comedy: Some Terms

Resources

• List of works on reserve in PCL
• Electronic reserves: http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=2506
• List of audiovisual resources in the UT Libraries related to the works we will study.

Guidelines for Writing

• General guidelines for writing
• Guidelines for writing your term papers

Paper assignments

• Paper 1
• Paper 2

Images to Accompany our discussions

• Roman Comedy
• Shakespeare
• Aristophanes
• Lysistrata
• Socrates
• Menander
• Medieval Comedy
• Molière
• Congreve
• Centlivre
• Beaumarchais
• Gilbert and Sullivan

Links

• The Birds of Aristophanes' Birds
• Images and sounds of auloi, courtesy of Elisabetta Matelli
• Latin Text of Plautus' Bacchides