For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedi

The five comedies included in this volume present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of

For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedi

While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a more recent

The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and pag