Terence Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 15 pages of information about the life of Terence.

Terence Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 15 pages of information about the life of Terence.
This section contains 4,427 words
(approx. 15 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Terence Biography

Dictionary of Literary Biography on Terence

By composing six popular comedies, Terence became pivotal in the development of Latin literature and, because his plays have never ceased to be read, eventually of European drama. Writing toward the beginning of Rome's engagement with Greek culture, Terence pioneers both accurate literary translation and creative competition with his original while setting linguistic standards for the classical Latin style to come. His comedy--written at the end of a living tradition of Greco-Roman comedy--though still in touch with its origins in the grotesque and fantastic, represents the mediocre lives of realistic characters and transmits to a Europe that had no Menander possibilities for comedy at work not only in comic drama but, in time, also in the novel and the situation comedy. As a working professional of the theater Terence gave early witness to the tension between artistic ambition and the commercial demands of a popular art form.

Publius...

(read more)

This section contains 4,427 words
(approx. 15 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Terence Biography
Copyrights
Gale
Terence from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.