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T. Macci Plauti Comoediae

T. Macci Plauti Comoediae( )
Editor: Ritschl, Friedrich Wilhelm
Author: Plautus, Titus Maccius
Series title:Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-1-108-01563-9
Publication Date:Jul 2010
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $73.99
Book Description:

The works of Latin comedic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus owe their modern reputation to this monumental four-volume edition, begun by the eminent German philologist Friedrich Ritschl. Volume 2 (1881-1884) contains editions of Aulularia, Amphitryon, Mercator, Stichus, and Poenulus, each with thorough introductions to major themes and textual considerations.

Book Details
Pages:728
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.443 x 8.424 x 5.46 Inches
Book Weight:1.83 Pounds
Author Biography
Plautus, Titus Maccius. (Editor)
Plautus and Terence used stock characters (the young lovers, the clever slave, the irate father) and devices (mistaken identity), but each handled these conventions in his own distinct manner. Plautus was the son of a poor Umbrian farmer who may have fought in the Second Punic War. The playwright Plautus is said to have been a popular actor, true comedian, jovial, tolerant, rough of humor. He not only modeled his plays on the Greek New Comedy, but unhesitatingly inserted long passages translated from the Greek originals. He was the master of comic irony and, as its originator, copied by Moliere, Corneille, Jonson, Dryden and Fielding. Shakespeare based his Comedy of Errors on Plautus's Menaechmi. Of more than 100 plays, 21 survive. 020



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