Three Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus, Rudens

by Plautus

Book Overview

A major comic artist in Republican Rome, Plautus left a legacy of twenty extremely inventive comedies. Ostensibly Latin versions of Greek plays staged in Athens several generations earlier, they display an exuberance and zany sense of humor that are distinctly Roman. Peter L. Smith here offers lively and colloquial English verse translations of three plays: Miles Gloriosus (The Braggart Warrior), Pseudolus (The Cheat), and Rudens (The Rope). In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801495946
• ISBN13: 9780801495946
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher