[PDF] The Comedies Of Terence eBook

Author : Beatrice Radden Keefe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 22,49 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 : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801843532

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In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comic impact of the original Latin, this volume presents all six comedies: The Girl from Andros (Andria), The Self-Tormentor (Heautontimorumenos), The Eunuch (Eunouchus), Phormios, The Brothers (Adelphoe), and Her Husband's Mother (Hecyra).

Author : Plautus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Plautus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 34,42 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 : Alison Sharrock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139482645

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For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.