Comedy · 165 BC

Hecyra

The Mother-in-Law

by Terence

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1853)

Terence's most reversed play, twice driven from the stage: a young husband's secret guilt, a wife in hiding and a wrongly blamed mother-in-law, in Riley's literal prose.

Contents · 8 parts

• Dramatis Personae11 lines
• The First Prologue1 paragraph
• The Second Prologue1 paragraph
• Act I52 paragraphs
• Act II36 paragraphs
• Act III140 paragraphs
• Act IV136 paragraphs
• Act V62 paragraphs

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