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Phormio

slick lawyer finagles on behalf of two men. [Rom. Lit.: Phormio]

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By the late 1520s, the schoolboys, under the guidance of Lily's surmaster John Rightwise, would perform Terence's Phormio in Latin before Wolsey, its presumed patron, apparently word for word.

The Influence of Children's Stagecraft: Chapel, School, and Popular Performance in the 1580s

(1) "Quot homines tot sententiae: suo quoique mos." Phormio; or, The Scheming Parasite, in THE COMEDIES OF TERENCE 301 (Henry Thomas Riley ed., 1874), available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22188/22188-h/files/ terence5_6.html#phormio.

Constitutionally speaking, does retention matter?

(15) All quotations of Phormio are from Terence, ed.

The comic ethos of Il Principe

(8) Nempe, meaning "in fact," is found in Cicero and Lucretius, but also in Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, lines 906, 922; Trinummus, lines 328, 427; see Terence, Phormio 2.1.77.

An idea is not something mute like a picture on a pad

The Riverside Shakespeare, Boston, 1974, 82 shows the woodcut illustrating Terence's Phormio.

Spaces, doors and places in early modern English staging

Paul's to court to perform a Latin play, Phormio, in 1528, (124) and an intensely political anti-Luther play also performed in Latin before visiting ambassadors in 1527, an indication that grammar school performance had by then gained status at court.

"The Sanctuarie is become a plaiers stage": Chapel Stagings and Tudor "secular" drama

4 and 5; Horace, Ars Poetica; Livy, Books 1, 21 and 30; Terence, Phormio; Seneca, Phaedra; Juvenal; Greek lyric poetry; and (c) commentaries on Greek lyric poetry, Patristic authors, Lucan, Vergil, Cicero, legal texts, Pliny, Ovid, Met., Xenophon, Apuleius, Latin lyric and elegy.

The classical association of South Africa: January 1975-January 1979

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