An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit

Note {8} — ON THE IDEA OF COMEDY AND OF THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT {1}

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Terence did not please the rough old conservative Romans; they liked Plautus better, and the recurring mention of the vetus poeta in his prologues, who plagued him with the crusty critical view of his productions, has in the end a comic effect on the reader.

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