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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies - Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe (Hardcover)
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies - Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe (Hardcover)
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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
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