For ten points name this Roman playwright noted for adapting Menander, the author of Andria and The Eunuch.
One of this man's plays was twice a flop – the first when the audience thought they were going to see boxing and tight-rope walking and the second time when the theatre was taken over by people looking for a sporting event. That play was The Mother-in-Law. Moliere was inspired by one of this man's plays in which one man has his brother raise one of his sons and they later fight over who did a better job. One of this man's plays was adapted both by Machiavelli and Thorton Wilder and he was praised by Julius Caesar as a "lover of pure speech" because this playwright wrote in conversational Latin. For ten points name this Roman playwright noted for adapting Menander, the author of Andria and The Eunuch.
One of this man's plays was twice a flop – the first when the audience thought they were going to see boxing and tight-rope walking and the second time when the theatre was taken over by people looking for a sporting event.
Terence or Publius Teretius Afer