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Clayton keeps up a terrific pace and energy throughout, with varied rhythms and ingenious rhymes. It is translated into an English that is not far from modern speech, but with a dramatic distance imposed by the verse form. * Journal of Classics Teaching, 10 * ...the likeable introduction by Matthew Leigh... ... the tone is lively and readable. * Times Literary Supplement, August 24 & 31 2007 * This is a respectable, plain version, which tells you what the Latin is about. But Clayton does more. He reminds us that we can find in Terence an ancestor for English comic verse, ranging from Ralph Roister Doister through Pope to Bernard Shaw and Ogden Nash. Clayton's Demea sounds like a strangely laid-back, Byronic version of Prospero at the end of the Tempest. * London Review of Books * Fred Clayton was a man in love with literature, and with the English and Latin languages. He was immensely learned, but hopeless at putting together the sort of connected argument that scholarly articles or monographs need, and in any case he wasn't interested in reading what other scholars had written. What he did was read the texts (and teach them, of course); his memory was simply full of them, and he could hear echoes and spot allusions that no-one else had suspected. His translations of Terence's plays, with no attempt at scholarly apparatus, are done in brilliantly deft rhyming couplets with the fluency and elegance you'd expect from someone who had most of the English poets in his head." ( ...an enjoyable way to get to know one of the founders of European comedy. * Journal of Classics Teaching, 10 * If I had to choose a recent translation of Terence, I would favour Clayton's, in amazingly lively and readable couplets (it also has a good introduction by Mathew Leigh, but no notes or full bibliography). In Clayton's version, the Don Juan-ish rhymes sometimes call the shots and the language is inevitably not much like modern spoken English. But at least he does not let you forget that Terence was a poet, a clear-minded, writerly writer. Sometimes Clayton's Terence actually seems funny, even in our enlightened day and age.
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'The Comedies of Terence' presents entirely new translations, in rhyming couplets, of all six extant plays by this Latin author, dating from the period 166-60 BC. An excellent literary translation, the versions remain very close to Terence's texts; consequently they will be not only enjoyable to the general reader, but also great value to the student of classics. The Introduction is in itself a major contribution to our understanding of Terence. Matthew Leigh, who has written the Introduction to this volume, first became interested in Terence while serving as Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. He is currently Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford. He is author of 'Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement' (Oxford, 1997) and 'Comedy and the Rise of Rome' (Oxford, 2004).

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Antiquarian. University of Exeter Press, 2006. XXIX,290p. Paperback. Review copy. The Comedies of Terence presents entirely new translations, in rhyming couplets, of all six extant plays by this Latin author, dating from the period 166-60 BC. An excellent literary translation, the versions remain very close to Terence's texts; consequently they will be not only enjoyable to the general reader, but also great value to the student of classics. The Introduction is in itself a major contribution to our understanding of Terence. (Publisher's information). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. Antiquarian. Artikel-Nr. 25292

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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Gut. XXVIII, 290 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Lediglich leicht bestoßen, sonst sehr gut und sauber / Only slightly bumped, otherwise very good and clean. - The Comedies of Terence presents entirely new translations of all six extant plays by P. Terentius Afer, known in English as Terence The Woman from Andros, The Self-Tormentor, The Eunuch, Phormio, The Mother-in-Law, and The Brothers which date from the period 166-160 BC. An excellent literary translation, the versions remain very close to Terence s texts; consequently they will be not only enjoyable to the general reader, but also of great value to the student of classics. / Contents Acknowledgements Introduction, by Matthew Leigh Select Bibliography A note on editions of the Latin texts TRANSLATIONS OF TERENCE S PLAYS The Woman from Andros The Self-Tormentor The Eunuch Phormio The Mother-in-Law The Brothers. ISBN 9780859897631 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495. Artikel-Nr. 1209948

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