ترنس: خنثی (متون کلاسیک آریس و فیلیپس)

When first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady Gnatho), its farcical and exaggerated humour and its vigorous action, it strikes the modern reader as the funniest and most Plautine of Terence's six comedies. It is also a play of effective and entertaining contrasts, particularly that between the two brothers Phaedria and Chaerea. Their very different attitudes to love and romance provide one of the play's chief points of interest, while Thais presents yet another picture of love, that of the professional courtesan. The fact that Thais, Thraso and the slave Parmeno are not quite the stereotypes we might expect to find in this type of play adds yet more to an amusing and thought provoking comedy. "When first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today with its larger-than-life characters (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady Gnatho), its farcical and exaggerated humour and its vigorous action, it strikes the modern reader as the funniest and most Plautine of Terence's six comedies. It is also a play of effective and entertaining contrasts, particularly that between the two brothers Phaedria and Chaerea. Their very different attitudes to love and romance provide one of the play's chief points of interest, while Thais presents yet another picture of love, that of the professional courtesan. The fact that Thais, Thraso and the slave Parmeno are not quite the stereotypes we might expect to find in this type of play adds yet more to an amusing and thought-provoking comedy."--BOOK JACKET Contents 7 Preface 8 INTRODUCTION 9 I. Greek New Comedy 9 II. Comedy at Rome 13 III. The Life and Works of Terence 19 IV. Terence and his Critics 24 V. The Eunuch and its Relationship to Menander 28 VI. The Eunuch as a Roman Comedy 35 VII. The Text 44 Bibliography 50 List of Metres 54 TEXT AND TRANSLATION 57 COMMENTARY 165 Index 219