Born 'Plautus' or 'splay-foot', he apparently managed to escape his backwoods village at a young age-perhaps by joining one of the itinerant theatrical. This comprehensive eBook presents Plautus’ complete extant works, with relevant illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. Sometime around 254 B.C., in the tiny mountain village of Sarsina high in the Apennines of Umbria, ancient Romes best-known playwright was born-Titus Maccius Plautus.
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Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts. His comedies, like those of Terence, were widely translated, adapted, and imitated by playwrights of Italy, Spain, France, and England. As a master of comic invention he is often compared with Aristophanes and Shakespeare. Detail of mosaic depicting a scene of a comedy : a slave chained by his master, who receives a messenger. Plautus wrote for the people and indulged in puns, word-play, and jests of every sort. Loosely adapted from lost Greek plays, the works of Plautus helped establish a truly Roman drama in the Latin language for the first time. Titus Maccius Plautus, Latin playwright, Asinaria, Act III, Argyrippus, Philaenium, Litanus and Leonida, Engraving, 1518. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English tran The Roman playwright Plautus wrote comedies that are the earliest Latin literary texts to have survived in their entirety. Loosely adapted from lost Greek plays, the works of Plautus helped establish a truly Roman drama in the Latin language for the first time. About the only fact we can be certain of concerning Plautus as a person is that he was a highly successful, comic playwright in late third-century and early second-century Rome. The Roman playwright Plautus wrote comedies that are the earliest Latin literary texts to have survived in their entirety. 254 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.