Terence: Hecyra Paperback / softback
by Terence
Edited by Sander M. (University of California, Los Angeles) Goldberg
Part of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/11/2013
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- ISBN:9780521721660
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/11/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521721660
