Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies - Couverture souple

Echard, Lawrence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1479411574 ISBN 13 : 9781479411573

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2025

Synopsis

Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies presents Lawrence Echard's early modern introductions to the dramatic works of two foundational Roman playwrights. These prefaces offer historical background, literary analysis, and interpretive framing that guided English readers' engagement with Latin comedy during the 17th and 18th centuries. Echard contextualizes Plautus's broad humor and Terence's refined elegance within the traditions of Roman stagecraft and moral philosophy, highlighting their influence on European theatre. Serving both as scholarly apparatus and cultural commentary, these texts reveal how classical literature was received, adapted, and morally evaluated in early modern England. The volume stands as a valuable artifact in the history of classical reception and literary criticism, bridging antiquity and the Enlightenment-era reading public.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Lawrence Echard is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Lawrence Echard then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479411574
• ISBN 13: 9781479411573
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible