Roman Comedy in Humanities Courses

The article reviews the situation of the critical edition of the “entremeses” and other comic short plays of Calderon, highlighting numerous textual and interpretative problems in the current editions, and proposing solutions for establishing the correct text of many passages. It also provides a number of explanations that clarify other references.     

Comedy in Paestan vase painting

Summary.   The 'phlyax' vases of magna graecia are now known to represent actors and staging of Middle Comedy. More than half of the comic vases dating from the third quarter of the fourth century BC were painted in Paestum by Asteas and his circle, who were influenced by the Sicilian Painter of Louvre K 240. This paper asks whether these painters worked from direct observation of the theatre; and if so, whether the vases are evidence for details of performance methods in Paestum or in Sicily, and at what period. The stage and skene , masks, costumes and comic acting style are considered, together with the link between Asteas and the Painter of Louvre K 240 and the significance of the disagreement of their evidence with that of the Manfria Group of Sicilian painters.     

Raymond E. Crist

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Studying Cultural Landscapes . Edited by Iain Robertson and Penny Richards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Acknowledgments, list of contributors, list of figures, list of tables, landscape glossary, bibliography, and index, xv+199 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 0-340-76268-3.

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Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region . By Ethan R. Yorgason. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, works cited, and index, xii+261 pp. $32.50 cloth. ISBN: 0-252-02853-8.

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Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place . By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, and index. xxxiii+219 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 0-87745-890-1.

Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945 . By Geoffrey L. Buckley. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xxiii+215 pp. $22.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8214-1556-5.

Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict . By Lary M. Dilsaver. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2004. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, notes and index, x + 323 pp. $35.00 cloth. ISBN: 0-8139-2268-2.     

访谈英国史学家E．A．里格利

里格利（E．A．Wrigley）,英国剑桥大学教授、英国人口史和工业革命史研究的著名学者,曾任英国学术院院长。笔者2004年在英国剑．桥大学访学期间采访了里格利教授。     

极致东南亚——以极致体验-向东南亚致敬

一次跟朋友聊天,无意间谈到第一次出国旅行。 朋友的第一次东南亚之行是在10年前,线路是当时旅行社最流行的新马泰。5天里,大巴穿越3国。最后一天,一个团友突然一脸疑惑地问导游：“东南亚有海吗？”导游郁闷到几乎当场晕倒。“那我们为什么没看到呢？”他接着问。这下,轮到除导游以外的其他人郁闷了。