<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/13705.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law</u><br><span>Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unacceptable today: Pamphilus has just married a woman he does not recognize that he had earlier raped in a drunken fit; nor does she recognize him. His mistress Bacchis is upset with the marriage and rejects him. He then wanders off, returning only in time to discover his wife with a new child that can't possibly be his. It takes both Mother and Mother-in-Law, and Bacchis, to bring a happy ending out of this confusion.</span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />