The Rope and Other Plays

The Rope and Other Plays - Ediciones

2 ediciones

The Rope and Other Plays

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4193-791-5

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141937915

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 288

Fecha de publicación: 2007-04-26

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Rope and Other Plays

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4044-136-9

ISBN sin guiones: 9780140441369

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 288

Fecha de publicación: 2007-04-26

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Disponible en otros idiomas

The Rope and Other Plays

Plautus

Primera publicación: 2007-04-26

Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molière and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is thrown into disarray when he returns from abroad, a theme that is explored further in the comedy of errors A Three-Dollar Day. In The Rope - regarded by many as the best of Plautus' plays - the shipwreck of a pimp and his slaves leads to the touching reunion of a father and his daughter, while Amphitryo, Plautus's only excursion into divine mythology, offers a cheerful account of how Jupiter became father to Hercules.