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The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus, Titus Maccius

ISBN: 9780140441369 PUBLISHER: Penguin Classics FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 256 PUBLICATION DATE: 28.08.1975 DIMENSIONS: 19.71 x 13.16 x 1.83 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Moliere and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is thrown into disarray when he returns from abroad, a theme that is explored further in the comedy of errors A ThreeDollar Day. In The Rope regarded by many as the best of Plautus' plays the shipwreck of a pimp and his slaves leads to the touching reunion of a father and his daughter, while Amphitryo, Plautus's only excursion into divine mythology, offers a cheerful account of how Jupiter became father to Hercules.

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