[PDF] Terence The Comedies eBook

Author : Beatrice Radden Keefe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9004463321

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This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.

Author : Terence
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198149719

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"Terence (?184-159 B.C.) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. All six of his plays survive. This new translation with introduction and explanatory notes aims to be both accurate and idiomatic, and to convey the liveliness of the plays as pieces written for the theatre."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191518328

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Terence (?184-159 BC) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. His plays have been imitated by authors as diverse as the nun Hrothswitha in the tenth century and P. G. Wodehouse in the twentieth. They deal with the love-life of adolescent boys and with associated tensions in their relations with their fathers. They show love triumphing over obstacles of various kinds, and they also portray the problems that arise from ignorance, misunderstanding, and prejudice. They are true to universal elements of human experience, and audiences today can readily engage with the issues they raise. This new translation with introduction and explanatory notes aims to convey the liveliness of the plays as pieces written for the theatre.

Author : Plautus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1999-03-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780872203624

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"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.

Author : Plautus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1585106232

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This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus, provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on a handsomely produced, inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.

Author : Terence
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Enter the world of ancient Rome and experience the hilarity of comedic plays written by Terence, a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. In this collection, you'll find the best of Terence's work, performed for the first time over two thousand years ago. Discover the story of how Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him, and later freed him. Although Terence's life was brief, his comedic legacy lives on. His plays were heavily used to teach Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period, and even influenced the great playwright, William Shakespeare. If you're looking for some lighthearted entertainment, don't miss out on this delightful collection of ancient Roman comedies.