Note 24 — Chapter VII · POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE
Reading edition
See Legrand, P. E., Tableau de la comédie grecque pendant la période dite nouvelle—κωμῳδία νέα; translated as The New Greek Comedy by James Loeb, with introduction by John Williams White, London and New York, 1917. An earlier study quoted below is Lallier, R., La comédie nouvelle, introduction à l’étude du théâtre de Térence (leçon d’ouverture), Toulouse, 1876.
Recent English translations of Plautus are: by Paul Nixon in the Loeb Classical Library (2 volumes issued); by E. H. Sugden of Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, London, 1893; by H. O. Sibley and F. Smalley of Trinummus, Syracuse, N. Y., 1895; by B. H. Clark of Menæchmi, New York, 1915. W. H. D. Rouse has reprinted William Warner’s Elizabethan translation of Menæchmi with the Latin text for the study of Shakspere’s Comedy of Errors, London, 1912.
A second edition of F. Leo’s Plautinische Forschungen zur Kritik und Geschichte der Komödie appeared in Berlin, 1912. More recent studies are: Brasse, M., Quatenus in fabulis Plautinis et loci et temporis unitatibus species veritatis neglegatur ... Greifswald, 1914 (Breslau thesis); Schild, Erich, Die dramaturgische Rolle der Sklaven bei Plautus und Terenz, Basel (thesis), 1917; Blancké, W. W., The dramatic values in Plautus, Geneva, N. Y., 1918 (Pennsylvania thesis); Cole, Mrs. H. E., Deception in Plautus, a study in the technique of Roman comedy, with bibliography, Boston, 1920 (Bryn Mawr thesis).
A complete translation of Terence was privately printed for the Roman Society, 1900, 2 volumes, with brief notes and partial bibliography. The most useful available translation is that of the Phormio by M. H. Morgan, Cambridge, Mass., 1894, with the Latin text and reproductions of the Vatican miniatures of costumes. This play has been translated also by Clark, B. H., New York, 1915; The Self-tormentor, by Shuckburgh, E. S., Cambridge, 1869, and by Ricord, F. W., New York, 1885. The Loeb Classical Library publishes the translation of John Sargeaunt in 2 volumes. See also Michaut, G., Sur les tréteaux latins (histoire de la comédie romaine), Paris, 1912; Knapp, C., References in Plautus and Terence to plays, players and playwrights, Classical Philology, xiv, number 1 (Jan., 1919); and a charming popular study by Lemaître, J., “Térence et Molière,” in Impressions de théâtre, vi (1898) 15-27. The better to define ancient conceptions of comedy, Lane Cooper reconstitutes An Aristotelian Theory of Comedy, with an adaptation of the Poetics and a translation of the ‘Tractatus Coislinianus,’ New York, 1922.