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  • Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence: Menaechmi, Rudens and Truculentus by Plautus; Adelphoe and Eunuchus by Terence

    Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence by Plautus; Terence; Christenson, David;

    Menaechmi, Rudens and Truculentus by Plautus; Adelphoe and Eunuchus by Terence

    Series: Focus Classical Library;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number First Edition
    • Publisher Focus
    • Date of Publication 1 January 2010
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781585103195
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages352 pages
    • Size 228x152x21 mm
    • Weight 411 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations none
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    Short description:

    English translations of five plays by two of its best practicioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus, provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy.

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    Long description:

    This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus, provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on a handsomely produced, inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.


    ....Christenson’s translations ... Are lucid and engaging. Perusal of this volume will give students and the general audience alike a cogent sense of Terence’s elegance, and frequent glimpses into the wild wordplay of Plautus....

    In this volume, Christenson offers teachers of Roman literature an excellent collection of approachable, enjoyable versions of key works the corpus of the comoedia palliata. The text is clean and mostly

    typo-free, and the book is both well-manufactured and eminently affordable. With its introduction and commentary that connect the plays to other authors, cultural context, and wider socio-historical developments, this book will serve well as a staple for classes ranging from surveys of Roman civilization and Western literature to courses on ancient humor and the history of theater, independently or in combination with Christenson’s prior collection.

    Reviewed by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.11.16

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