Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe"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 |
Contents
Double Bind Plautuss Menaechmi Translated by Douglass Parker | 99 |
The Wild Wild Women Plautuss Bacchides Translated | 185 |
The MotherinLaw Terences Hecyra Translated by Deena Berg | 295 |
The Brothers Terences Adelphoe Translated by Deena Berg | 345 |
A Note on the PreAct of The Wild Wild Women | 406 |
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Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe Plautus,Terence,Deena Berg,Douglass Parker No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
AESCHINUS ÆSYCOME ÆSYGO Aloud ANTIQUIDES Athens audience BACCHISI better brother center stage CLIMAX CLUELESS CLUELESS II Comedy Convivia course CTESIPHO CURMUDGE Curmudgeous's Daddy damn dear DEMEA DEXTER DIDDLEY door DOUGLASS PARKER DOVEY downtown drachmas enters Epidamnus ESYGO eyes father GETA girl give GIZMO gods Gold hand HAPLUS happened hear HEGIO hell Hello HOSPIT Hospitalides house of Bacchis house of Laches hundred Kahunas INGESTIO inside INTENSIDES keep KLYSTER LICKAS look LOVEYKINS Loveykins's house Machismo MAJOR Major's house Menaechmi MICIO Micio's house MILLY mother moves Myrrina Nautikles never nice NUGGET PAMPHILUS PARMENO Pelisse Phidippus PHILOTIS Philumena Plautus Plautus's play pulls Roman SANNIO Scene SISSY sisters slave SMUG SOSTRATA SPATULA stage right stops sure swear SYGO SYRUS tell There's thing turns twin wait what's who's wife woman word ZEUGMA