The Girl from Andros

Girl from Andros, The (Andria)

    Alternative Title: The Lady/Woman from Andros

    Author: Terence

    First Performance: 166 BC, Rome

    First English Translation: c.1520

    Genre: Latin com. in verse

    Setting: A street in Athens, before the houses of Simo and Glycerium, 2nd c. bc

    Cast: 9m, 3f

An Athenian gentleman, Simo, has arranged for his son Pamphilus to marry his neighbour's daughter. However, Pamphilus has already fallen in love with a foreign girl from Andros, Glycerium (who never appears in the play). Even though Simo learns that Glycerium is expecting Pamphilus' child, he insists on the arranged marriage going ahead in order to test the sincerity of his son's feelings. Davus, a slave, advises Pamphilus to agree to his father's plan, causing complications with Pamphilus' friend,...

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