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MARC Record

000  01549cam  2200253 a 4504
001  45992038
005  20011003150038.0
008  010212s2000    enka          001 d eng  
015      $aGBA1-12023
020      $a0856685135
040      $aUKM$cUKM$dMIA
041  0   $aenglat
049      $aWTUU
090      $aPA6756.E8$bB76 2000
100  0   $aTerence.
245  14  $aThe eunuch /$cTerence ; edited with translation
         and commentary by A.J. Brothers.
260      $aWarminster :$bAris & Phillips,$cc2000.
300      $avi, 213 p. ;$c22 cm.
546      $aText in Latin with English translation.
520  1   $a"When first performed, The Eunuch was a great
         success. Today with its larger-than-life characters
         (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady
         Gnatho), its farcical and exaggerated humour and its
         vigorous action, it strikes the modern reader as the
         funniest and most Plautine of Terence's six comedies. It is
         also a play of effective and entertaining contrasts,
         particularly that between the two brothers Phaedria and
         Chaerea. Their very different attitudes to love and romance
         provide one of the play's chief points of interest, while
         Thais presents yet another picture of love, that of the
         professional courtesan. The fact that Thais, Thraso and the
         slave Parmeno are not quite the stereotypes we might expect
         to find in this type of play adds yet more to an amusing and
         thought-provoking comedy."--BOOK JACKET.
504      $aIncludes index.
650   0  $aLatin drama (Comedy)
700  1   $aBrothers, A. J.$q(Anthony James),$d1938-
910      $aBK