Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe (Hackett Publishing Co.)
Editorial Reviews
Ann Thomas Williams, Duquesne University
"Deena Berg and Douglass Parker's Plautus & Terence: Five Comedies [Hackett Publishing Co.] is a fascinating postmodernist rendition of some of the most postmodernist - metatheatrical, self-referential, sophisticated, stylized - literature classical antiquity has to offer. The sparkling and eminently performable translations are a hard act to precede, but the translator's delightful introductions are a worthy match for their subjects. . . . Highly recommended." (John Wright, Northwestern University) "These witty, fast-moving translations of Roman comedy [Hackett Publishing Co.] capture the spirit and sense of their originals in a mixture of Roman and contemporary cultural idiom. Berg's Terence is, as Quintillian put it, "elegantissima"; Parker's jazzy "cantica" in the Bacchides are hilarious, and his pseudo-Plautine reconstruction of the missing first act is an imitative tour de force."
(Eleanor W. Leach, Indiana University) "This splendid sampling of Roman comedy [Hackett Publishing Co.] is particularly welcome because Parker and Berg have combined the best known (and perhaps finest) comedies of Plautus and Terence (The Brothers Menaechmus, here 'Double Bind,' and Miles Gloriosus, here 'Major Blowhard,' and Adelphoe, 'The Brothers') with two rarer and rather special comedies: 'The Wild Wild Women,' Plautus' exuberant Bacchides, and 'The Mother-in-Law' (Hecyra), perhaps Terence's most modern comedy, important as evidence from ancient comedy for the evolution of the sentimental or psychological drama of everyday life. The translators are to be congratulated on their choices and their truly up-to-date versions; Parker is a veteran whose punning wit and swashbuckling idiom in his very actable Plautus scripts contrast nicely with the simple elegance of Berg's Terence."(Elaine Fantham, Princeton University) "What a delight to have these lively, funny, readable, actable versions available! This really fills a need for ancient drama and theater history courses." (Diane Arnson Svarlien, Georgetown College) "A very readable translation that students will enjoy. Concise & helpful comments."
Eleanor W. Leach, Indiana University
"These witty, fast-moving translations of Roman comedy [Hackett Publishing Co.] capture the spirit and sense of their originals in a mixture of Roman and contemporary cultural idiom. Berg's Terence is, as Quintillian put it, "elegantissima"; Parker's jazzy "cantica" in the Bacchides are hilarious, and his pseudo-Plautine reconstruction of the missing first act is an imitative tour de force."
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Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe (Hackett Publishing Co.)
Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe (Hackett Publishing Co.),Titus Maccius Plautus,Terence,Douglass Parker,Deena Berg,Hackett Publishing Company,087220362X,Ancient, Classical & Medieval,Drama,Latin drama (Comedy),Literature: Classics,Plays / Drama,Translations into English
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