The Rope and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Plautus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140441360 ISBN 13: 9780140441369

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1964

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Book by Plautus

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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, Molière 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 Three-Dollar 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.

Biografía del autor:

TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS (c. 254-184 B.C.)

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0140441360
• ISBN 13: 9780140441369
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288