The Comedies
$32.37
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1980
Summary
A collection of comic plays which were to become the main influence on Renaissance writers.
The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots.
In his romantic play, The Girl from Andros, Terence portrays a love affair saved by a startling discovery. The Self-Tormentor focusses on a man’s remorse after …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140443240 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014044324X |
| Author: | Betty Radice, Terence |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1980 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Betty Radice
Terence (c.186-159) was born at Carthage of Libyan parentage, and was brought Rome as a young slave. According to Roman tradition his talents and good looks won him an education, manumissions, and entry to a patrician literary circle, with whose encouragement he wrote six Latin plays, modelled on Greek New Comedy. Only one, The Eunuch, was a popular success in his lifetime but he was read and admired in Roman times and became the main influence on Renaissance comedy.
Betty Radice was one of the greatest translators of her lifetime, and translated many titles for the Penguin Classics including Erasmus’s Praise of Folly and Livy. She died in 1985.
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