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Terence: The Comedies Hardcover - 2007

by Terence; Peter Brown (Translator); Introduction by Peter Brown


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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 theater.

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  • Title Terence: The Comedies
  • Author Terence; Peter Brown (Translator); Introduction by Peter Brown
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 366
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, 2006. 368p. Hardback. This new translation ... is to be warmly welcomed. The whole is marked by the kind of scholarship one wou
  • Date 2007-02-08
  • ISBN 9780198149712 / 0198149719
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.82 x 1 in (21.51 x 14.78 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
  • Library of Congress subjects Terence
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006025670
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.94

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Peter Brown is Lecturer in Classics at Oxford University and Fellow of Trinity College.
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