Terence: The Girl From Andros

The Girl from Andros was the Roman comic playwright Terence's first play and shows him as already a master dramatist. It contains much plotting and counter-plotting, two boys in danger of losing the girls they love, and a girl searching for her family. This is the first detailed commentary on the play for nearly sixty years.

About the author

Peter Brown is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and a member of the Advisory Board of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on Greek and Roman drama, and his translation of Terence's Comedies appeared in the Oxford World's Classics series in 2008. He was co-editor with Suzana Ograjensek of Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage (Oxford 2010).

Summary

The Girl from Andros was the Roman comic playwright Terence's first play and shows him as already a master dramatist. It contains much plotting and counter-plotting, two boys in danger of losing the girls they love, and a girl searching for her family. This is the first detailed commentary on the play for nearly sixty years.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Brown
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781789620108
• ISBN: 978-1-78962-010-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts; Aris and Phillips Classical Te
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity