Author: Terence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458719
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Terence's Eunuchus (The Eunuch) was his most successful play in his lifetime but has been surprisingly neglected by modern commentators. In this first ever full-scale commentary in English, Professor Barsby provides a thorough examination of the play in terms of its literary and dramatic qualities, its staging, and its relationship to the two plays of Menander's on which it is based. The commentary includes scene-by-scene discussions which bring out the development of character and plot, and the notes offer a close study of Terence's language in comparison with that of his predecessor Plautus. A full introduction puts Terence in his historical and literary context, and there are two appendices, one on metre and the other giving text and translation of the remains of Menander's Eunouchos and Kolax.
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Terence: The lady of Andros ; The self-tormentor ; The eunuch
Author: Terence
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Category : Bilingual books
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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TERENCE (Publius Terentius Afer, c. 195-159 B.C.), was a north African of Carthage. He was brought to Rome as a household slave of the Roman Terentius Lucanus, who had him educated and freed. Terence was then admitted to the society of Roman nobles who liked literature; for them chiefly he composed six Latin comedies (based on Greek models), all of which are extant. Gifted with an intimate knowledge of human nature, but preferring the kindly to the cruel, he presents us, in polished poetry, with loving parents and children, gentle masters, and faithful slaves, well suited to the Roman circle for which he was writing. Even where social behavior is not high, there is refinement and subtle humour. At least one of the plays has a very modern look. Indeed none of them is specially related to his own time; all however are meant to reproduce life as presented by playwrights of the 'New Comedy' (especially Menander) at Athens about a century earlier.
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Category : Bilingual books
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Pages : 368
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TERENCE (Publius Terentius Afer, c. 195-159 B.C.), was a north African of Carthage. He was brought to Rome as a household slave of the Roman Terentius Lucanus, who had him educated and freed. Terence was then admitted to the society of Roman nobles who liked literature; for them chiefly he composed six Latin comedies (based on Greek models), all of which are extant. Gifted with an intimate knowledge of human nature, but preferring the kindly to the cruel, he presents us, in polished poetry, with loving parents and children, gentle masters, and faithful slaves, well suited to the Roman circle for which he was writing. Even where social behavior is not high, there is refinement and subtle humour. At least one of the plays has a very modern look. Indeed none of them is specially related to his own time; all however are meant to reproduce life as presented by playwrights of the 'New Comedy' (especially Menander) at Athens about a century earlier.
P. Terenti Afri Comoediae
Author: Terence
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Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
Author: American Philological Association
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-
The Plays of Terence
Author: Terence
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Category : Bilingual books
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Bilingual books
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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American Journal of Archaeology
Terence with an English Translation
Biblioteca Curiosa
Author: Edmund Goldsmid
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Early English Printed Books (1475 to 1640)
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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9781001426976
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9781001426976
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Catalogue ... of the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks, the Property of S.R. Christie-Miller ...
Author: Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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