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Terence: Andria

Authors

Edited with Introduction and Notes by
Sander M. Goldberg
, University of California, Los Angeles
Published 2022

Description

As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and Dryden to Thornton Wilder. It provides an excellent introduction to Terence 's particular style of comedy, noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the perspectives of woman and slaves and its experiments with a secondary plot line.…

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Key features

  • Enables students to master the challenges of Terence's language, thus making their reading of the play more enjoyable
  • Adopts a practical, modern approach to understanding the principles behind metrical practice so that students gain a better sense of Roman comedy as a musical theatre
  • Supplies headnotes discussing the action and blocking and notes in the text including stage directions that enable students to imagine the play as a living performance

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