This play opens with one character sharing the story of how his friend had gone to bed drunk with a young virgin but still did not have sex with her.
This play opens with one character sharing the story of how his friend had gone to bed drunk with a young virgin but still did not have sex with her. That character expresses surprise to Syra that the protagonist has married despite promising he would never do so, though he later learns it was against the protagonist's will. The first two times this play was to be staged, it was stopped due to a rumor of an impending tightrope-walker performance and a storming of the theater by gladiator fans. The protagonist of this play gives a ($) ring to Bacchius after stealing it from the girl he raped, whom he ultimately marries. For ten points, identify this play about the really messed up love between Pamphilus and Philumena, written by (*) Terence and titled after Philumena's relation to Shostra, one of her new husband's parents.
This play opens with one character sharing the story of how his friend had gone to bed drunk with a young virgin but still did not have sex with her.
{Hecyra} or The {Mother-in-Law}