[1] It is a translation of a play written by the Latin comedy writer Terence, who had originally taken it from the Greek dramatist Menander.
The story is about an old man, Simone, who wants his son, Panfilo, to marry Filumena, the daughter of his neighbour Cremete.
Panfilo has, however, a secret love affair with Glicerio, a girl who is thought to be the sister of Criside, and who is pregnant by him.
Pasibula was Cremete's daughter, who was thought to have died in a shipwreck during a travel to the island of Andros.
The Andria remained untranslated for the English stage until a limited run of Michael Knowles' translation, The Girl from Andros, was produced at Yale University in April 2012.