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Author Terence

Title The comedies / Terence ; translated with introduction and notes by Peter Brown
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 338 pages)
Series OUP E-Books
Contents The girl from Andros (Andria) -- The mother-in-law (Hecyra) -- The self-tormentor (Heauton Timorumenos) -- The eunuch (Eunuchus) -- Phormio -- The brothers (Adelphoe)
Summary 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. - ;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 adolescen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxvii)
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Subject Terence -- Translations into English
SUBJECT Terence fast
Subject DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Genre/Form Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Peter, 1945 August 5-
LC no. 2006025670
ISBN 9781429470094
1429470097
9786610753390
6610753393
1280753390
9781280753398
0191518328
9780191518324
Other Titles Works. English. 2006