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Terence: The Girl from AndrosPaperback, 30 November 2019

Terence: The Girl from Andros
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Part of Series
Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Print Length
324 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Date Published
30 Nov 2019
ISBN-10
1789620112
ISBN-13
9781789620115

Description

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two plays (both now lost) by the Greek playwright Menander and was first put on in Rome in 166 BCE. The main focus of interest is the plotting and counter-plotting of a devious master and his equally devious slave, but there are also two boys both in danger of losing the girls they love, and a girl in search of the family from which she has long been separated - typical ingredients of a Latin comedy.
The play is a theatrical tour de force with many comic highlights and is enlivened by a succession of metatheatrical remarks; but it also provokes thought on various aspects of human relationships in a male-dominated, slave-owning society that jealously guards its rights of citizenship. It was the first ancient Latin comedy to be performed in the Renaissance and influenced a number of plays in succeeding centuries, most notably Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers (1722); it was also the inspiration for Thornton Wilder's novel The Woman of Andros (1930). This volume includes the first detailed commentary on the play in any language for nearly sixty years.

Product Details

Author:
Peter Brown
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
30 November 2019
Dimensions:
20.83 x 14.73 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
1789620112
ISBN-13:
9781789620115
Language:
English
Pages:
324
Weight:
430.91 gm

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