Name: Terence: The Girl from Andros
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Author: Peter Brown
ISBN: 9781789620115

Type

Physical Book

Author

Peter Brown

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

324

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781789620115

Synopsis "Terence: The Girl from Andros"

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two plays (both now lost) by the Greek playwright Menander and was first put on in Rome in 166 BCE. The main focus of interest is the plotting and counter-plotting of a devious master and his equally devious slave, but there are also two boys both in danger of losing the girls they love, and a girl in search of the family from which she has long been separated - typical ingredients of a Latin comedy. The play is a theatrical tour de force with many comic highlights and is enlivened by a succession of metatheatrical remarks; but it also provokes thought on various aspects of human relationships in a male-dominated, slave-owning society that jealously guards its rights of citizenship. It was the first ancient Latin comedy to be performed in the Renaissance and influenced a number of plays in succeeding centuries, most notably Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers (1722); it was also the inspiration for Thornton Wilder's novel The Woman of Andros (1930). This volume includes the first detailed commentary on the play in any language for nearly sixty years.

Peter Brown

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He is the author and illustrator of many beloved books such as My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not), Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, Children Make Terrible Pets, and The Curious Garden. His books have been New York Times bestsellers and have been awarded the Caldecott Honor (for Creepy Carrots!). As an illustrator, he won the Children’s Choice Book Award. The Wild Robot is his first novel.

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