Intro -- A Companion to Terence -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Biography -- 2 Terentian Scholarship -- 3 Essays in this Companion -- Part I: Terence And Ancient Comedy -- Chapter One: Terence and Greek New Comedy -- Further Reading -- Chapter Two: Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy -- 1 Terence, Popularity, and the Palliata -- 2 The Prologues and the Roman Comic Tradition -- 3 Plot and Characterization -- 4 Language and Meter -- 5 Staging and Theatricality -- 6 Perspective -- Further Reading -- Chapter Three: Terence and Non-Comic Intertexts -- 1 Poetics -- 2 Tragedy -- 3 Love Poetry -- 4 Philosophy and Didactic -- 5 Rhetoric -- Further Reading -- Chapter Four: Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence -- 1 Sound and Sense -- 2 Bilingual Humor -- 3 Register and Humor -- 4 Metatheater -- 5 Reported Speech and Parody -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter Five: Meter and Music -- 1 How Terence's Meters Work -- 2 Terence's Meters -- 3 Meter and Music -- 4 Eunuchus -- Further Reading -- Part II: Contexts And Themes -- Chapter Six: Terence and the Scipionic Grex -- 1 History of the Idea -- 2 The Sources -- 3 Terence and Scipio -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter Seven: opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the 160s BCE -- 1 Roman Reflections: Locating the Roman Self in a Terentian Comedy -- 2 Reflections on Rome: Referencing Roman Current Events and Policy -- 3 Reflections for Romans: Elite Male Ideals for All to Admire -- 4 Noble Service at War, at Rest, at Work -- 5 Otium in Terence in Rome: Changing Value Systems -- 6 Denouement -- Further Reading -- Chapter Eight: Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in Terence -- 1 Roman Religion -- 2 Greek New Comedy and Roman comoedia palliata -- 3 Sacrifice in Menander -- 4 Sacrifice in Plautus -- 5 Sacrifice in Terence.

6 The Larger Religious Picture -- 7 Terence and the Family -- 8 Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter Nine: Gender and Sexuality in Terence -- 1 Gender and Sexuality among Senior Citizens -- 2 The Younger Generation -- 3 Rape -- 4 Gender and Sexuality on the Margins: Courtesans and Others -- 5 Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter Ten: Family and Household in the Comedies of Terence -- 1 Cast and Character -- Household and Community -- 2 Managing Sons: Subsistence Parenting -- 3 Managing Daughters: An Economy of Exchange -- 4 Mirrored Experience, Parents and Children in Terence -- 5 Other Families: Non-citizen or Non-propertied -- 6 Mirrored Experience, Author and Audience -- Further Reading -- Chapter Eleven: Masters and Slaves -- Further Reading -- Part III: The Plays -- Chapter Twelve :Andria -- 1 First Things -- 2 First Scene -- 3 obscura diligentia vs neglegentia -- 4 Ethical Paradox -- Further Reading -- Chapter Thirteen: Heauton Timorumenos -- 1 The Clinia/Antiphila Plot -- 2 The Clitipho/Bacchis Plot -- 3 The Menedemus/Clinia Plot -- 4 The Chremes/Clitipho Plot -- 5 The Chremes/Syrus Plot -- 6 The Bacchis Plot -- 7 Plautus' Influence -- 8 Influence of Improvisation -- 9 Structure -- 10 Intrigue in Menander -- 11 Ethos in Menander -- 12 Conflicts in Menander -- 13 Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter Fourteen: Eunuchus -- 1 The Rape -- 2 Metatheater or Playing Eunuch -- 3 The Hooker with a Heart (and a House Full) of Gold -- 4 The (Out)cast(s) of Characters: Soldier and Parasite -- 5 Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter Fifteen: Phormio -- Acknowledgment -- Further Reading -- Chapter Sixteen: Hecyra -- 1 Hecyra's Bad Reputation -- 2 What Really Happened -- 3 The Secret to Hecyra's Success -- 4 Hecyra's Playbill -- 5 Musical Spectacle -- 6 The Clever Slave -- 7 Plot Twists and Farce.

8 Philumena's Secret -- 9 Pamphilus: Callous Rapist or Comic Fool? -- 10 The Tribulations of Pamphilus -- 11 Reasons for Hecyra's Comic Appeal -- Further Reading -- Note -- Chapter Seventeen: Adelphoe -- 1 Adelphoe as an Adaptation -- 2 Terence's Dramaturgy in Adelphoe -- 3 Demea's Transformation -- 4 Knemon -- 5 Demeas -- 6 Demea -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgment -- Part IV: Reception -- Chapter Eighteen: History of the Text and Scholia -- 1 The Direct Tradition: Earliest Phases -- 2 Surviving Ancient Manuscripts: A and Others -- 3 The g-Class of Medieval Manuscripts -- 4 The d-Class of Medieval Manuscripts -- 5 Relations among Families of Manuscripts -- 6 The Evidence of the Scholiasts and Grammarians -- 7 Overall Nature of the Tradition: Scope for Conjecture -- 8 Modern Editions -- 9 Ancient Scholarship, Second Century BCE to Fourth CE -- 10 Donatus -- 11 Other Extant Ancient Scholia -- 12 The Middle Ages -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter Nineteen: Terence in Latin Literature from the Second Century BCE to the Second Century CE -- 1 First Performances and Revivals -- 2 Criticism -- 3 Praise for Language and Style -- 4 Rhetorical Praxis -- 5 Terence's Characters as Moral Examples -- 6 Non-specific References to Terence's Plays -- Further Reading -- Chapter Twenty: Terence in Late Antiquity -- 1 From the Stage to the Schools -- 2 Late Antique Editions of Terence -- 3 Terence in Late Latin Literature -- 4 The Making of a "Classic" -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter Twenty-One: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Christianizes Terence -- Further Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Two: "Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him": Terence in Early Modern England -- 1 Terence in Theory -- 2 Terence in the Schools -- 3 Terence in Early English Drama -- 4 Terence and Shakespeare -- 5 Terence in Later English Drama -- Further Reading.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Mulier inopia et cognatorum neglegentia coacta: Thornton Wilder's Tragic Take on The Woman of Andros -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter Twenty-Four: Terence in Translation -- 1 Terence for Schoolboys: Udall and Webbe -- 2 The First Complete Translation: Bernard -- 3 Back to the Schoolroom: Hoole -- 4 Terence and Restoration Comedy: Echard -- 5 The Eighteenth Century: Cooke, Patrick, Gordon, Colman -- 6 The Victorian Age: Riley and the Bohn Classical Library -- 7 The Twentieth Century and Since: Expansion and Experiment -- 8 Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter Twenty-Five: Performing Terence (and Hrotsvit) Now -- 1 Performance -- 2 Hrotsvit -- 3 Performing Hrotsvit -- 4 Terence -- 5 Performing Terence and Hrotsvit -- 6 Results of the Experiment -- Further Reading, Viewing, and Listening -- References -- General Index -- Index Locorum.

A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence's plays and situating them in their socio-historical context, as well as documenting their reception through to present day  The first comprehensive collection of essays on Terence in English, by leading scholars in the field  Covers a range of topics, including both traditional and modern concerns of gender, race, and reception  Features a wide-ranging but interconnected series of essays that offer new perspectives in interpreting Terence  Includes an introduction discussing the life of Terence, its impact on subsequent studies of the poet, and the question of his ethnicity.

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