Terence: Andria

by Sander M. Goldberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009200666
• ISBN13: 9781009200660
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"