Five Comedies
Five Comedies

Author: Plautus

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1999-03-12

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780872203624

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"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.

MLN.
MLN.

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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MLN pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Critical studies in the modern languages--Italian, Hispanic, German, French--and recent work in comparative literature are the basis for articles and notes in MLN. Four single-language issues and one comparative literature issue are published each year.

Plautus
Plautus

Author: Titus Maccius Plautus

Publisher:

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674991811

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Three Comedies
Three Comedies

Author: Titus Maccius Plautus

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780819198150

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The special genius of the Roman comic poet Plautus is the wedding of native Italian farce with the mature and polished constructions of Greek comedy. The three plays translated in this book all contain that almost inevitable kernel of Greek comic plot: the love affair. But they have little else in common. In the first, a self-inflating soldier tries to live up to his image of himself as a lover. In the second, a beautiful maiden is rescued from an evil pimp. And in the third, an ill-starred husband fancies himself in love with his wife's young housemaid. Clever, or at least ambitious, slaves tend to move the action, in which the rudeness of farce merges with exuberant wit, satire, and parody.

Miles Gloriosus
Miles Gloriosus

Author: Titus Maccius Plautus

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-02

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781341219511

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