Terence: Hecyra

ISBN-13: 9780521896924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 230 str.

Sander M. Goldberg

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'This commentary has profited from [Goldberg's] intimate knowledge of Greek and Roman comedy and ancient performance practice … It will clearly become the new standard commentary of this play.' Ortwin Knorr, Willamette University

Spis treści

Introduction; Text; Commentary; Appendix I: Philumena's pregnancy; Appendix II: Greek analogues.