Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold - Paperback
by Plautus
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Availability:In StockContributor:Plautus, Erich Segal (Editor), Erich Segal (Translator)Series:Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)Publish date:2008-06-15Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780199540563ISBN-10:019954056XUPC:9780199540563Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.80 x 4.97 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCVZNKE8EW
Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold
Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humor, and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an undisputed genius. The comedies printed here show him at his...
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780199540563ISBN-10:019954056XUPC:9780199540563Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.80 x 4.97 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCVZNKE8EW
Erich Segal is Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was Professor of Classics at Yale and is author of Roman Laughter, a study of Plautus. He also wrote Love Story.
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