"Deena Berg and Douglass Parker's Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies is a fascinating postmodernist rendition
of some of the most postmodernist -- metatheatrical, self-referential, sophisticated, stylized -- literature classical
antiquity has to offer. The sparkling and eminently performable translations are a hard act to precede, but the
translator's delightful introductions are a worthy match for their subjects. . . . Highly recommended."
--John Wright, Northwestern University
"These witty, fast-moving translations of Roman comedy capture the spirit and sense of their originals
in a mixture of Roman and contemporary cultural idiom. Berg's Terence is, as Quintillian put it, "elegantissima";
Parker's jazzy "cantica" in the Bacchides are hilarious, and his pseudo-Plautine reconstruction of the missing
first act is an imitative tour de force."
