Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of
great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of
Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close
attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments boldly
with traditional comic forms, not only in its creation of
anticipatory suspense, but through its variations on traditional
situations and roles and its metatheatrical qualities. In addition,
Terence's response in his prologues to the play's two putative
failures is important, if tendentious, evidence for the mechanics
of theatrical performance in the second century, especially the
conjunction of theatrical and gladiatorial shows. This edition
opens the play's many interpretive challenges to wider scrutiny
while remaining attentive to the linguistic needs of students at
all levels.
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