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Amphitryon and Two Other Playsby Lionel Casson, PlautusISBN 0393006018 (0-393-00601-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphitryon and Two Other Plays'Book summary:Plautus wrote upwards of fifty plays, of which twenty have survived.
This anthology includes his best plays and also seeks to give some idea of his range. His forte was farce, and these selections exemplify at least two of his favorite farcical devices: mistaken identity (Amphitryon) and the lecherous old codger (Casina). The Pot of Gold reveals what Plautus could do with the subtler humor to be evoked from character. [via]More editions of Amphitryon and Two Other Plays:
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The Captivaby PlautusISBN 1419155938 (1-4191-5593-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captiva'Book summary:TYND. You act just as you ought to act; now I wish you to give attention. In the first place of all, carry my respects to my mother and my father, and to my relations, and if any one else you see well- disposed towards me: say that I am in health here, and that I am a slave, in servitude to this most worthy man, who has ever honored me more and more with his respect, and does so still. [via]
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The Captiva and the Mostellariaby PlautusISBN 1406809985 (1-4068-0998-5)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captiva and the Mostellaria'Book summary:In it a young man called Philolaches is having a great time while his father is away on business. Philolaches has also borrowed a lot of money to buy the freedom of the slave-girl he loves. One day he is having a house party with many friends, when his slave Tranio interrupts the merry-making to announce that Philolaches' father has returned unexpectedly and will arrive from the harbour at any minute. Amid the general panic, Tranio has an idea. He hustles Philolaches and his friends into the house and locks the door. The father now arrives. Tranio greets him respectfully but pretends that it is dangerous to enter the house because it is haunted. Unfortunately, at this moment a money-lender turns up to claim the money that Philolaches borrowed. Tranio thinks quickly and pretends that the money was borrowed to buy the house next door. Even when Philolaches' father meets the real owner of the house, Tranio manages to hide the truth for some time, but he is found out at last and jumps onto the top of an altar to escape punishment. All ends happily, however, when one of Philolaches' friends arrives and persuades the father to forgive his son. Even Tranio is forgiven. [via]
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The Captivi of Plautusby Plautus , W.M. LindsayISBN 0548304181 (0-548-30418-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Casinaby PlautusISBN 0521290228 (0-521-29022-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Casina'Book summary:Plautus' Casina is a lively and well composed farce. The plot, which concerns the competition of a father and his son for the same girl and the various scurrilous tricks employed in the process, gives full scope to Plautus' inventiveness and richly comic language. The editors' aim is to establish the play as one of the liveliest of ancient comedies, and in their introduction and notes to make the reader continually aware of the conditions of an actual stage performance. They discuss the background and conventions of Roman comedy and by offering a complete metrical analysis they help the reader to appreciate the original musical structure of the play. The edition is intended primarily for use by students at school and university but will be of value to anyone interested in reading the play in the original. [via]
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Classical Comedyby PlautusISBN 0140449825 (0-14-044982-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Comedy'Book summary:The ideal single-volume introduction to the greatest masterpieces of ancient comedy[via]
From the fifth to the second century B.C., theatrical comedy flourished in Greece and Rome. This new anthology brings together four essential masterworks of the genre: Aristophanes? bold, imaginative The Birds; Menander?s The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehavior; and two later Roman comic plays?Plautus?s The Brothers Menaechmus, the inspiration for Shakespeare?s The Comedy of Errors; and Terence?s bawdy yet sophisticated double love plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays capture the genius of classical comedy for students, theatergoers, actors, lovers of satire, and anyone interested in the ancient world.More editions of Classical Comedy:
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Comoediae: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercatorby Plautus , W.M. LindsayISBN 0198146280 (0-19-814628-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus, Vidularia, Fragmentaby Plautus , W.M. LindsayISBN 0198146299 (0-19-814629-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Four Comediesby Plautus , Erich SegalISBN 0192838962 (0-19-283896-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Menaechmi, or the Twin-brothersby PlautusISBN 1420929062 (1-4209-2906-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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Mostellaria or the Haunted Houseby PlautusISBN 1419174622 (1-4191-7462-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Plauti Truculentusby Plautus , P. J. EnkISBN 0405116020 (0-405-11602-0)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Plautusby PlautusISBN 0674990676 (0-674-99067-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plautus'Book summary:Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.
Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue (Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus); of intrigue with a recognition theme (The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio); plays which develop character (The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the Menaechmi; caused on purpose as in Amphitryon); plays of domestic life (The Merchant, Casina, both unpleasant; Trinummus, Stichus, both pleasant).
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.
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Plautus Captiviby Plautus , Gail SmithISBN 0929524500 (0-929524-50-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Plautus: Casina, the Casket Comedy, Curculio, Epidicus, the Two Menaechmusesby PlautusISBN 0674990684 (0-674-99068-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue (Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus); of intrigue with a recognition theme (The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio); plays which develop character (The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the Menaechmi; caused on purpose as in Amphitryon); plays of domestic life (The Merchant, Casina, both unpleasant; Trinummus, Stichus, both pleasant).
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.
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Selections from Plautus With Introduction and Notes by Km Westawayby Plautus , K. M. WestawayISBN 0521071976 (0-521-07197-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Storm: Or The Howlerby PlautusISBN 1840025859 (1-84002-585-9)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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T. MacCi Plauti Pseudolusby Plautus , Edgar H. Sturtevant, Frank Edward Brown, Frederick William Schaefer, John Parker ShowermanISBN 0405116225 (0-405-11622-5)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Aulularia / Goldtopf-Komödie. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek: Band 9898by PlautusISBN 315009898X (3-15-009898-X)
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Der glorreiche Hauptmann. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek: Band 8031by PlautusISBN 3150080312 (3-15-008031-2)
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Truculentusby Titus MacCius Plautus , Walter HofmannISBN 3534138007 (3-534-13800-7)
Hardcover, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
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Amphitruoby Plautus , David M. ChristensonISBN 0521454018 (0-521-45401-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Amphitrvoby Plautus , David M. ChristensonISBN 0521459974 (0-521-45997-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphitrvo'Book summary:This is the first edition of Platus' Amphitruo to appear in English for approximately forty years. It contains introductory essays, Latin text and a line-by-line commentary. Students will find this an indispensable tool in reading and translating the play, which was enormously popular in antiquity and has inspired modern adaptations by Molière, Giraudoux and Harold Pinter, among others. Dr. Christenson makes use of both current critical approaches to theater and traditional classical scholarship to offer many new insights into this delightful comedy. [via]
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