The Comedies (Penguin Classics)

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398 pp. "Terence's sublte plots and sensitive characterization have had a lasting influence on modern theatre. In 'translating' Greek New Comedy into a different world, the Roman d ramatist Terence (c.186-159 B.C.) gave to his plays a humanism and sense of style that became a model for dramatists from the Renaissance onwards. One of his technical innovations was the 'double plot', which enabled him to draw out characters with sympathy and without exaggeration to show them in all their complexity." Show more