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050 00 $aPA6756.A1$bB6 1992
100 0 $aTerence.
240 10 $aWorks.$lEnglish.$f1992.
245 10 $aTerence :$bthe comedies /$ctranslations by Palmer
Bovie, Constance Carrier, and Douglass Parker ; edited by
Palmer Bovie.
250 $aJohns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University
Press,$c1992.
300 $axxi, 398 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aComplete Roman drama in translation.
500 $aOriginally published with title: The complete
comedies of Terence. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers
University Press, 1974.
520 $aThe works of Terence have been part of the
world's heritage of dramatic literature for more than two
thousand years--and they are still being staged and enjoyed.
In English translations that achieve a lively readability
without sacrificing the dramatic and comic impact of the
original Latin, this volume presents all six comedies: The
Girl from Andros (Andria), The Self-Tormentor
(Heautontimorumenos), The Eunuch (Eunouchus), Phormio, The
Brothers (Adelphoe), and Her Husband's Mother(Hecyra).
Publius Terentius Afer--our Terence--was a slave from North
Africa, brought as a boy from Carthage and sold to a wealthy
Roman named Marcus Terentius Lucanus. Recognizing the boy's
natural charm and genius, Marcus Terentius had Terence
educated along with his own children and eventually set the
gifted young man free. Terence took to his education in
Latin and Greek literature and was soon writing plays of his
own--Roman comedies in Latin poetry, based on Greek models.
The plays were performed for Romans from every walk of life,
who crowded the improvised theaters on festival days. Before
his death by shipwreck at age thirty-six--on a voyage to
Greece in search of manuscripts by Menander--he had become
one of Rome's most popular comedic playwrights. To Terence,
"nothing human is foreign." His comedies revel in the
complex relationships and amusing cross-purposes of typical
"worthies" and their interfering friends. Lovers survive
nerve-wracking comic trials. Young men, helped by their
stoic slaves, reconcile with angry fathers and uncles.
Tutors, lawyers, and middlemen--the "unworthies"--are
content to play both ends against the middle. Terence's
engaging portrayals of the "generation gap" and other
timeless subjects conquered an unruly Roman populace--and,
in these translations, will captivate modern readers.
600 00 $aTerence$xTranslations into English.
650 0 $aLatin drama (Comedy)$xTranslations into English.
700 1 $aBovie, Smith Palmer.
700 1 $aCarrier, Constance.
700 1 $aParker, Douglass.
740 01 $aComplete comedies of Terence.
935 $aADR6679
970 01 $tPreface$cPalmer Bovie$fBovie, Smith Palmer
970 11 $tThe Girl from Andros (Andria)$p3
970 11 $tThe Self-Tormentor (Heautontimorumenos)$p71
970 11 $tThe Eunuch (Eunouchus)$p145
970 11 $tPhormio$p227
970 11 $tThe Brothers (Adelphoe)$p301
970 11 $tHer Husband's Mother (Hecyra)$p353
