SOURCE: "Roman Imitators: Plautus and Terence" in Masters of Dramatic Comedy and Their Social Themes, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1939, pp. 49-78.
Perry was an American educator and author. In the following excerpt, he examines the themes of Terence's plays in the context of Roman comedy, concluding that he refined the plots and characters that he borrowed from other playwrights to make them more serious and more humane.
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