Does anyone know of any complete online translations of either Terence or Plautus? I know Perseus has them but they take forever to read. I need to download the translation.
Thanks.
I should probably add that I’m looking to direct one of these plays. I remember hating Plautus when I study’d him & thinking Terence was okay. I’d like to read all of them in a simple English translation, choose which one to do, then do my own translation from the Latin. Any suggestions anout which playwright is funnier & which play is the funniest are welcome. I should have added a poll about it. Too late now.
I do not know much about Roman theatre (yet).
Where are you going to direct this play? At a rep house, college, small theatre company, where? [This is purely curiousity]
They have one Plautus thing at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=plautus&amode=words&title=&tmode=words which is downloadable, but otherwise I think you’re either going to have to use Perseus or get it on paper.
Perhaps this Perseus link would work better http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0092&query=tln%20line%3D1&chunk=act since you can get an entire act at once and can print it out rather than having petty little chunks.