How Terence's Hecyra Failed
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9666755 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F H Sandbach (Trinity College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 134-135 |
| Publication date | 1982-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800022898 |
| OpenAlex | W2273723717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
It is often repeated that at the unsuccessful productions of Terence's Hecyra the audience left the theatre in order to see, on the first occasion, boxers and a tight-rope walker, on the second, a gladiatorial contest. 1 The other view, that the spectators remained but demanded other entertainment, is to my mind clearly correct and deserves restatement since the mistaken one is so widespread
Aesthetics · Art · CONTEST · Entertainment · Literature · Order (exchange · Rope · Theology · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Introduction
Music and Metre
Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation
Slaves and Roman Comedy
Fathers and Sons
Gods and Roman Comedy
Stage Action in Roman Comedy
Roman Comedy in Early Modern Italy and France
The Language of Roman Comedy
Roman Comedy in Germany (from Humanism to Lessing)
Roman Comedy on Stage and Screen in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Metatheatre
Roman Comedy in Early Modern England
Comic Technique
The Manuscripts and Illustration of Plautus and Terence
Mothers and Whores
The Politics of Roman Comedy
Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
The scripted audience in Roman comedy
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy
Plautus vs. Terence
The Campanian Case of Gaius Lucilius
Plautus on the Palatine
Were There Slaves in the Audience of Plautus’ Comedies
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |