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.
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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. This new translation with introduction and explanatory notes aims to convey the liveliness of the plays as pieces written for the theatre.
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Introduction ; Note on the Translation ; Select Bibliography ; The Girl from Andros ; The Mother-in-Law ; The Self-Tormentor ; The Eunuch ; Phormio ; The Brothers ; Explanatory Notes
This new translation ... is to be warmly welcomed. The whole is marked by the kind of scholarship one would expect from Brown, well informed, perceptive, alert to opposing views, and above all judicious.
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Lively and idiomatic translation presents Terence's plays as pieces written for the theatre
A specially written Introduction helps the reader to place Terence in his context in Latin literature and in the history of comic drama
Full explanatory notes enable appreciation of Terence's special qualities, and of the background to his plays
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Peter Brown is Lecturer in Classics at Oxford University and Fellow of Trinity College.
Lively and idiomatic translation presents Terence's plays as pieces written for the theatre
A specially written Introduction helps the reader to place Terence in his context in Latin literature and in the history of comic drama
Full explanatory notes enable appreciation of Terence's special qualities, and of the background to his plays
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ISBN
9780198149712
Publisert
2006
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
223 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
368
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