Biography EssayTranslations in English: The Plays of Menander, edited and translated by Lionel Casson (New York: New York University Press, 1971); Menander. Plays and Fragments, translated, with a...
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Menander (342-291 BC) was an Athenian comic playwright. He was the acknowledged master of the so-called New Comedy in Greece. Famed for his realistic portrayal of situations and characters, he greatly...
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The comedy of fourth-century Athens, which inspired the Roman plays of Plautus and Terence and, through their own revival in the Renaissance, modern traditions of comedy from William Shakespeare and M...
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Menander
Menander