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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Constable Subjects: Comedy History / General Humor / General Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama Performing Arts / Comedy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 107 20-21. the ghost of Menander. See Sainte-Beuve on Terence, in Nouveaux Lundis (Aug. 3, 1863), 1884, 5.339: ‘Pour mot, je crois entendre I’Ombre de Menandre, par chacun de ces vers aimables qui nous sont arrivés en debris, nous dire: “Pour I’amour de moi, aimez Terence.”‘ (‘As for me, with each one of these winning verses that have come down to us in fragments, I seem to hear the shade of Menander say to us: “For love of me love Terence.” ‘) 107 24. what is preserved of Terence has not . . . given us the best. Contrary to the view of Meredith and his age, the disappointing nature of the fragments of Menander that have been unearthed since Meredith wrote might lead one to think that perhaps, after all, the best of the New Comedy was no better than what we have in Flautus and Terence. See note on 107 27. 107 25-26. the friend of Epicurus. The relations between Menander and the Greek philosopher Epicurus remind us that Molire studied under the French philosopher and mathematician Gassendi. 107 26-27. Mitrovfievoi!, the lover taken in horror. Possibly rather, The Jilted Lover(Lat. Odionus). Compare Legrand, The New Greek Comedy, p. 151: ‘In the Mwrorf/tew the jilted lover is driven out of doors at night by his sad thoughts, and awakens his slave Getas, who has nothing to do with the matter, to tell him of his mortification.’ 107 27. Hepiicetpo/Jievri. (Lat. Tonsa.) Thi…
