Titus Maccius Plautus

Amphitryon

First new translation in 30 years and comprehensive commentary for over a century.

Aulularia

"The braggart soldier kidnaps a beautiful girl and eventually is punished in a manner befitting the vainest lecher of all time."--From publisher's website.

A Comedy in Two Acts

The Braggart Soldier

Mostellaria or the Haunted House

The Little Carthaginian.Pseudolus. The Rope. (Loeb Classical Library No. 260)

Plautus

T. Maccio Plauto

Anfitrione

Miles Gloriosus or "Braggart Warrior" is one of the best-known and liveliest Roman comedies. It shows Plautus at his ablest in ingenious plot construction, vivid characterization, fast-moving action, and humorous dialogue. This edition of the Latin text is fully and very helpfully annotated. The substantial introduction considers the antecedents of Plautus's drama in Greek New Comedy and in Italic farce, his mixture of Greek and Roman both in language and in the life portrayed, and his stagecraft, language, and meter.

Miles Gloriosus

Anfitrione commedia di Plauto

La pentola del tesoro

the braggart soldier, the brothers Menaechmus, the haunted house, the pot of goldm

Four comedies

Plaute

T. Macci Plauti Miles Miles Gloriosus

Terentius

Hortlak

Koloman Rac

Vladimir Gerić

Škrtac

Mostellaria

Comedias: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi

Terence

The Focus Classical Library is dedicated to publishing the best of Classical literature in contemporary translations with notes and introductions, so as to provide modern students access to the thought and context at the roots of contemporary culture. Five new translations of Rome's finest comic playwrights, Plautus and Terence, are included in this single volume. The five plays: Menaechmi, Rudens, Truculentus, Adelphoe, and Eunuchus provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy by two of its best practitioners. These modern translations inlcude notes, an extensive introduction, and appendices.

Five Plays by Plautus and Terence

Roman Comedy

Henry Thomas Riley

The Comedies of Plautus: Trinummus.- Miles Gloriosus.- Bacchides.- Stichus.- Pseudolus.- Menaechmi.- Aulularia.- Captivi.- Asinaria.- Curculio. v. 2. Amphitryon.- Rudens.- Mercator.- Cistellaria.- Truculentus.- Persa.- Casina.- Poenulus.- Epidicus.- Mostellaria.- Fragments

Cesare Questa

I Menecmi

The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205-184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant.

Plautus, vol. 4

Titus Maccius Plautus

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