Parables on a Roman comic stage
Subtitle: Samarites - Comoedia de Samaritano Evangelico (1539)
By: by Petrus Papeus ; together with the commentary of Alexius Vanegas of Toledo (1542) ; introduction, edition, and translation by Daniel Nodes
Contributors: Nodes, Daniel Joseph, 1951- editor, translator; Venegas, Alejo, 1498 or 1499-1562, writer of added commentary; Papeus, Petrus, active 16th century; Papeus, Petrus, active 16th century
Series: Drama and theatre in early modern Europe -- volume 7; Drama and theatre in early modern Europe -- 7.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9789004317871; 9789004340190
Subjects: Drama; Parables; Translations into English; Latin drama (Comedy); History and criticism; Medieval and modern Latin drama; Englisch; Übersetzung
Description: The Samarites by Petrus Papeus offers an effective blending of gospel narrative and ancient Roman comedy, combining manner of Plautus and Terence with the didacticism of medieval allegory and morality plays and the poetic diction of Renaissance humanism. In the Samarites they are the ingredients that present both moral and doctrinal teachings related to the gospel parables of the Prodigal Son and Good Samaritan. Papeus? work is an excellent example not only of the early modern school play, but also of the shifting conceptions of drama in Europe at that time. Daniel Nodes presents a critical edition and translation of the play together with a humanist commentary produced in Toledo by Alexius Vanegas three years after the play?s first printing in Antwerp.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages.