Terence: The Eunuch (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780856685132)

When first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady Gnatho), its farcical and exaggerated humour and its vigorous action, it strikes the modern reader as the funniest and most Plautine of Terence's six comedies. It is also a play of effective and entertaining contrasts, particularly that between the two brothers Phaedria and Chaerea. Their very different attitudes to love and romance provide one of the play's chief points of interest, while Thais presents yet another picture of love, that of the professional courtesan. The fact that Thais, Thraso and the slave Parmeno are not quite the stereotypes we might expect to find in this type of play adds yet more to an amusing and thought provoking comedy.

Author: Brothers
ISBN-10: 0856685135
ISBN-13: 9780856685132
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2000
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.20w x 0.50d