Author: Beatrice Radden Keefe
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004463321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.
The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)
Terence, The Comedies
Author: Terence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198149719
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
"Terence (?184-159 B.C.) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. All six of his plays survive. This new translation with introduction and explanatory notes aims to be both accurate and idiomatic, and to convey the liveliness of the plays as pieces written for the theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198149719
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
"Terence (?184-159 B.C.) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. All six of his plays survive. This new translation with introduction and explanatory notes aims to be both accurate and idiomatic, and to convey the liveliness of the plays as pieces written for the theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
Terence, The Comedies
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191518328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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 theatre.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191518328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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 theatre.
Five Comedies
Author: Plautus
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872203624
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872203624
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.
The Comedies of Terence
Author: Terence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Comedies of Terence
Author: Terence
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Enter the world of ancient Rome and experience the hilarity of comedic plays written by Terence, a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. In this collection, you'll find the best of Terence's work, performed for the first time over two thousand years ago. Discover the story of how Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him, and later freed him. Although Terence's life was brief, his comedic legacy lives on. His plays were heavily used to teach Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period, and even influenced the great playwright, William Shakespeare. If you're looking for some lighthearted entertainment, don't miss out on this delightful collection of ancient Roman comedies.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Enter the world of ancient Rome and experience the hilarity of comedic plays written by Terence, a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. In this collection, you'll find the best of Terence's work, performed for the first time over two thousand years ago. Discover the story of how Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him, and later freed him. Although Terence's life was brief, his comedic legacy lives on. His plays were heavily used to teach Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period, and even influenced the great playwright, William Shakespeare. If you're looking for some lighthearted entertainment, don't miss out on this delightful collection of ancient Roman comedies.
Terence's Comedies,
Author: Terence
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Classical Comedy
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959487
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959487
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.
The Comedies of Terence
Author: Terence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Reading Roman Comedy
Author: Alison Sharrock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends, and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility.