The Witching Hour and Other Plays by Nina Sadur
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe
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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. This is a book to be used and enjoyed. --Raymond J. Clark, The Classical Outlook
- ISBN-13
- 9780872203624
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Imprint
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Publication date
- 15 September 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 424
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
- Language
- English
