Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694)

by Lawrence Echard

[3.] A General Ecclesiastical History . . . . (London, 1702), sig. b1.

[4.] The Letters of Joseph Addison, ed. Walter Graham (Oxford, 1941), p. 504.

[5.] Recently republished with an introduction by Peter Ure as No. XIV (1958) in the University of Liverpool Reprints.

[6.] “Dryden, Tonson, and Subscriptions for the 1697 Virgil,” PBSA, LVII (1963), 147-48. Raymond Havens makes a rather different emphasis in his “Changing Taste in the Eighteenth Century,” PMLA, XLIV (1929), 501-18.

[7.] Items 450 and 595 in The Library of William Congreve, ed. John C. Hodges (New York, 1955). Project Gutenberg [e-text 27606]

[8.] Les comédies de Plaute, ed. and trans. Anne Dacier (Paris, 1683). For a further statement of her views, see Les comédies de Térence (Paris, 1688).

[9.] In particular, see his discussion of the liaisons which is derived from François Hédelin, Abbé D’Aubignac, La practique du théâtre . . . . (Paris, 1669), pp. 117-19, 315-20. D’Aubignac’s work was translated into English as The Whole Art of the Stage . . . . (1684).

[10.] Plautus’s Comedies, sig. a8^v; Terence’s Comedies, p. xiii.

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The texts of this edition are reproduced from copies in the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.