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The comedies

I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.'Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome, he has influenced authors from Moli--egrave--;re and Wycherley to P.G. Wodehouse. Scheming slaves, parasites, prostitutes, pimps, and boastful soldiers populate his plays, which show love triumphing over obstacles of various kinds, and the problems that arise from ignorance, misunderstanding, and prejudice. A.

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  • "Comedies"
  • "P. Terenti Afri Comoediae"@en
  • "P. Terenti Afri Comoediae"
  • "Comoediae"
  • "Works. Latin and French"
  • "Vita Terentii. English. 1976"@en
  • "P. Terenti Afri comoediae"
  • "mihi propterea quod"
  • "Sammlung"
  • "Publii Terentii comœdiæ"@en
  • "comedies"
  • "[Werke, engl.]"
  • "Hécyre"
  • "Terence, the comedies"@en
  • "Heautontimorúmenos"
  • "Andrienne"
  • "Phormión"
  • "Térence. Comédies"
  • "Andria"@en
  • "Complete comedies of Terence"@en

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  • "Terence was the outstanding comedic playwright of his generation and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. All six of his plays survive and are collected in this volume. Acknowledged as classics soon after his early death, admired above all for their style but also for their insights into human nature, these plays have been imitated by authors as diverse Moliere and P.G. Wodehouse. They deal with the love-life of adolescent boys and with associated tensions in their relations with their fathers, showing love triumph over obstacles of various kinds. The action is enlivened by a number of stock characters such as scheming slaves, parasites, prostitutes, pimps, and boastful soldiers, and stock situations such as the rediscovery of foundlings. Rome had reached a pinnacle of power in the Mediterranean world, and the plays reflect tensions that were in the air at the time. But they are also 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 be both accurate and idiomatic, and to convey the liveliness of the plays as pieces written for the theatre."
  • "I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.'Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome, he has influenced authors from Moli--egrave--;re and Wycherley to P.G. Wodehouse. Scheming slaves, parasites, prostitutes, pimps, and boastful soldiers populate his plays, which show love triumphing over obstacles of various kinds, and the problems that arise from ignorance, misunderstanding, and prejudice. A."@en

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  • "Early works"@en
  • "Humanistic scripts"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Theatertekst"
  • "Facsimiles"
  • "Facsimiles"@en
  • "History"
  • "Textura"
  • "Illuminated manuscripts"
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Comedies"
  • "Comedies"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Manuscripts"@en
  • "Manuscripts"
  • "Latin drama (Comedy)"

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  • "Térence [Comédies]"
  • "Les Comédies de Terence : traduction nouvelle avec le texte latin a côté et des notes"
  • "Les comédies"
  • "The comedies"
  • "The comedies"@en
  • "[Comédies]"
  • "The comedies [of] Terence"@en
  • "The comedies of Terence : construed literally and word for word"
  • "Comedies [mikroform]"
  • "Térence"
  • "Comedies Of Terence"
  • "The Comedies"@en
  • "The Comedies"
  • "Comèdies"@ca
  • "Comèdies"
  • "The comedies (of) Terence"@en
  • "Comédies"
  • "Comedies"
  • "Comedies"@en
  • "Terence, the comedies"@en
  • "Terence, the comedies"
  • "The Comedies of Terence : Translated into English by F. Perry"
  • "[The Comedies of Terence translated into familiar blank verse by George Colman.]"@en
  • "The comedies of Terence = P. Terenti Afri comoediae"
  • "Terence : the comedies"@en
  • "The comedies of Terence : Echard's translation : [1694]"
  • "Les Comédies"
  • "Comedies : texte etabli et tr. par J. Marouzeau"
  • "Les comedies"
  • "The comedies of Terence"
  • "The comedies of Terence"@en
  • "The Comedies of Terence, translated into familiar blank verse [with notes]... by George Colman. The 2d edition, revised and corrected"
  • "Comedies of Terence"@en
  • "Comedies of Terence"
  • "The Comedies of Terence"
  • "The Comedies of Terence"@en
  • "[Comedies]"
  • "Comedies [Ms. Auct. F.2.13 (c. 1150)]"
  • "Les comedies of Terence"
  • "Comedies texte etabli et trad. par J. Marouzeau. 3e tirage rev. et corr"
  • "Les Comedies"
  • "The comedies of Terence = P. Terenti Afri Comoediae"
  • "Comedies / Terence ; text etabli et traduit par J. Marouzeau"

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