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Book Synopsis
At the first two presentations of this play in 165 and 160 BC, the prospect of rival attractions drove the actors prematurely off the stage, and it was only in September 160 that it was finally performed in full.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction:
  • The life and career of Terence
  • The Mother-in-Law
  • Summary of the plot
  • Terentian technique in the play
  • Terence and the Greek original
  • The Mother-in-Law and the Epitrepontes of Menander
  • Metre:
  • The Metres of Terence. The Metrical Patten of The Mother-in-Law
  • The text
  • Abbreviations used in the Apparatus criticus
  • Text and translation
  • Commentary on the translation
  • Appendix I: The Odium-Morbus theme
  • Appendix II: The timescale of the pregnancy
  • Short Bibliography.

The Motherinlaw Classical Texts Aris Phillips

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      Publisher Aris & Phillips Ltd
      Published 5 January 1990
      ISBN-13 9780856683749
      978-0856683749
      ISBN-10 0856683744

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      At the first two presentations of this play in 165 and 160 BC, the prospect of rival attractions drove the actors prematurely off the stage, and it was only in September 160 that it was finally performed in full.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Introduction:
      • The life and career of Terence
      • The Mother-in-Law
      • Summary of the plot
      • Terentian technique in the play
      • Terence and the Greek original
      • The Mother-in-Law and the Epitrepontes of Menander
      • Metre:
      • The Metres of Terence. The Metrical Patten of The Mother-in-Law
      • The text
      • Abbreviations used in the Apparatus criticus
      • Text and translation
      • Commentary on the translation
      • Appendix I: The Odium-Morbus theme
      • Appendix II: The timescale of the pregnancy
      • Short Bibliography.

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