Author: TerencePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Terence's Comedies Made English, with His Life and Some Remarks ... By Several Hands L. Eachard and Others
Author: TerenceTerence's Comedies
Author: TerenceTerence's comedies, made English, with his life, and some remarks, by L. Echard, and others. Revis'd by dr. [J.] Echard and sir R. L'Estrange
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Author: Publius Terentius (Afer)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Terence's Comedies Made English, with His Life, and Some Remarks at the End. By Mr. Laurence Echard, and Others. Revis'd and Corrected by Dr. Echard and Sir R. L'Estrange. The Fourth Edition
Author: TerencePrefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694)
Author: Lawrence EchardPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040829469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Ellipsis in English Literature
Author: Anne TonerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316240592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing interest in these forms of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to get closer to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of thought, and the successive or fragmented nature of experience by means of these textual symbols. While such punctuation marks may seem routine today, this book describes their emergence in early modern drama and examines the relationship between authors, printers and grammarians in advancing or obstructing the standardisation of the marks. Their development is explored through close study of the works of major English writers, including Jonson, Shakespeare, Richardson, Sterne, Meredith and Woolf, along with visual illustrations of their usage. In particular, Toner traces the evolution of ellipsis marks in the novel, a form highly receptive to elliptical punctuation.
Ancient Comedy and Reception
Author: S. Douglas OlsonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 161451125X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.
Foreign Plays in English
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education
Author: Ian GreenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317119614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran, Calvinist and Jesuit education abroad, it offers an overview of the uses to which Latin and Greek were put in English schools, and identifies the strategies devised by clergy and laity in England for coping with the tensions between classical studies and Protestant doctrine. It also offers a reassessment of the role of the 'godly' in English education, and demonstrates the many ways in which a classical education came to be combined with close support for the English Crown and established church. One of the major sources used is the school textbooks which were incorporated into the 'English Stock' set up by leading members of the Stationers' Company of London and reproduced in hundreds of thousands of copies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the core of classical education remained essentially the same for two centuries, there was a growing gulf between the methods by which classics were taught in elite institutions such as Winchester and Westminster and in the many town and country grammar schools in which translations or bilingual versions of many classical texts were given to weaker students. The success of these new translations probably encouraged editors and publishers to offer those adults who had received little or no classical education new versions of works by Aesop, Cicero, Ovid, Virgil, Seneca and Caesar. This fascination with ancient Greece and Rome left its mark not only on the lifestyle and literary tastes of the educated elite, but also reinforced the strongly moralistic outlook of many of the English laity who equated virtue and good works with pleasing God and meriting salvation.
Terence: Andria
Author: Sander M. GoldbergPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350020648
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a vital companion to Terence's earliest comedy, Andria, highlighting its context, themes, staging and legacy. Ideal for students it assumes no knowledge of Latin, but is helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction. This will be the first port of call for anyone studying or researching the play. Though Andria launched Terence's career as a dramatist at Rome, it has attracted comparatively little attention from modern critics. It is nevertheless a play of great interest, not least for the sensitivity with which it portrays family relationships and for its influence on later dramatists. It also presents students of Roman comedy with all the features that came to characterize Terence's particular version of traditional comedy, and it raises all the interpretive questions that have dogged the study of Terence for generations. This volume will use a close reading of the play to explore the central issues in understanding Terence's style of play-making and its legacy.