Ave, Jeeves!
Emily Wilson: Rom(an) Com, 21 February 2008
Plautine Elements in Plautus
by Eduard Fraenkel, translated by Tomas Drevikovsky and Frances Muecke.
Oxford, 459 pp., £79, November 2006,0 19 924910 5 Show More
by Eduard Fraenkel, translated by Tomas Drevikovsky and Frances Muecke.
Oxford, 459 pp., £79, November 2006,
Plautus: ‘Asinaria – The One about the Asses’
translated by John Henderson.
Wisconsin, 252 pp., £13.50, December 2006,0 299 21994 1 Show More
translated by John Henderson.
Wisconsin, 252 pp., £13.50, December 2006,
Terence: The Comedies
translated by Peter Brown.
Oxford, 338 pp., £9.99, January 2008,978 0 19 282399 1 Show More
translated by Peter Brown.
Oxford, 338 pp., £9.99, January 2008,
Terence: Comedies
translated by Frederick Clayton.
Exeter, 290 pp., £45, January 2006,0 85989 757 5 Show More
translated by Frederick Clayton.
Exeter, 290 pp., £45, January 2006,
“... well that ends well. Just what two/ Young gentlemen of Verona might any day do,’ as Frederick Clayton comments in a brilliant modern epilogue to the play. As with Shakespeare’s bed tricks, it’s hard to know how much we are supposed to worry about the rapes in Terence. On the one hand, they are a useful plot device. The victim can remain ... ”