Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Release : 1995
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 150/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Three Comedies by : Titus Maccius Plautus
Download or read book Three Comedies written by Titus Maccius Plautus. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special genius of the Roman comic poet Plautus is the wedding of native Italian farce with the mature and polished constructions of Greek comedy. The three plays translated in this book all contain that almost inevitable kernel of Greek comic plot: the love affair. But they have little else in common. In the first, a self-inflating soldier tries to live up to his image of himself as a lover. In the second, a beautiful maiden is rescued from an evil pimp. And in the third, an ill-starred husband fancies himself in love with his wife's young housemaid. Clever, or at least ambitious, slaves tend to move the action, in which the rudeness of farce merges with exuberant wit, satire, and parody.
