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Mercator, 691-802 in English, Version A. NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance.

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    Abstract

    Dorippa has discovered that her husband Lysimachus is harboring a prostitute in their house. She wrongly thinks that it is his prostitute rather than his friend Demipho's. At the precisely the wrong time, the cook arrives who Demipho had asked Lysimachus to hire for a party. Lysimachus becomes increasingly frustrated with his friend Demipho. Filmed in Forest Theatre, on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

    Version 2: Performed in English. Dorippa is played assertively, and the cook unwittingly complicates Lysimachus' troubles. Translation by Sharon James with modifications by Christopher Bungard, Christine Woodworth, Dan Smith, and Steve Earnest.

    Produced at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 2012, as part of the NEH Summer Institute, "Roman Comedy in Performance," co-directed by Sharon L. James and Timothy J. Moore. Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Department of Classics and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, provided further funding.

    Original languageAmerican English
    StatePublished - Jan 1 2012

    Keywords

    • Roman comedy

    Disciplines

    • Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity
    • Classical Literature and Philology
    • Classics
    • Theater and Performance Studies

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