Plautus: Rudens (Latin Texts) - Softcover

Plautus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862920639 ISBN 13: 9780862920630

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 1991

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This book contains the full text of Plautus's Rudens, supplemented with an Introduction, extensive vocabulary and detailed textual notes.

Plautus' plays were written and produced around 200B.c so he is therefore the earliest Latin writer whose work survives in bulk; he belongs to the generation that fought Hannibal. His work consisted in adapting for performances in Rome Greek comedies written a hundred years earlier for performance in Athens. Since his plays and all the other Latin comedies that we have are derived from Greek plays, so this book examines Greek drama as well as Roman.

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Plautus, Titus Maccius (254-184 BC) was a Roman playwright, whose comedies were the most popular dramatic works of their day. He was originally an actor or clown. Twenty-one of his 130 plays survive, revealing his theatrical craftsmanship and total mastery of farce. Although his works were palliata, adaptations of Greek new comedy originals now lost, he shifted the scene to Rome and based much of the humour on Roman manners and customs. His comedy, which was broader than that of Terence, still works today. Stock characters of Plautus's plays include the bragging soldier, the miser, the old man in love, the parasite, identical twins, the wily slave, and the courtesan. Later European dramatists influenced by Plautus include Shakespeare, Jonson, Dryden, and Molière. His comedy was often based on disguises and mistaken identities; Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (1592) was based on Plautus's Menaechmi, about the confusions caused by a pair of long-separated identical twins. Several of his plays were combined for Stephen Sondheim's 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (although only one line from Plautus was retained: "I am a parade"). Plautus was eventually forced to work in a grain mill after losing most of his theatrical earnings in unsuccessful business ventures.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0862920639
• ISBN 13: 9780862920630
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Fay H.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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