Roman Laughter - the Comedy of Plautus

Segal, Erich

America's leading authority on the subject at the time (and still held by some to be so), he inscribed this copy to a Yale colleague, Thomas Greene, in his own right a very distinguished Renaissance scholar. Segal went on to write 'Love Story', which was hugely successful but put his professional life under a cloud thereafter. The author's first book.

Publisher: Harvard University Press. First American edition 1968
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Cambridge, MA
Original brown cloth. Sunned a little on the spine, else fine. No dustwrapper.


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