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Author Terence

Title Hecyra / Terence ; edited by Sander M. Goldberg
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Contents Comedy at Rome -- The career of Terence -- The Hecyra -- Language and style -- Meter -- Donatus -- Text
Summary Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments boldly with traditional comic forms, not only in its creation of anticipatory suspense, but through its variations on traditional situations and roles and its metatheatrical qualities. In addition, Terence's response in his prologues to the play's two putative failures is important, if tendentious, evidence for the mechanics of theatrical performance in the second century, especially the conjunction of theatrical and gladiatorial shows. This edition opens the play's many interpretive challenges to wider scrutiny while remaining attentive to the linguistic needs of students at all levels
Subject Terence -- Criticism and interpretation
Terence.
Mothers-in-law -- Drama
Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
Latin drama (Comedy)
Mothers-in-law.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Drama.
Comedies.
Form Electronic book
Author Goldberg, Sander M
ISBN 9781316099766
1316099768