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Plautus:     more books (100)

The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Classics) by Plautus, 1965-09-30 The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus, 1964-05-30 Plautus: Pseudolus (Bristol Latin Texts Series) by M Willcock, 2009-09-30 Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics) by Plautus, 2008-06-15 The Mostellaria by Titus Maccius Plautus, 2009-12-24 Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus by Erich Segal, 1987-05-21 The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience by Timothy J. Moore, 1998 The Early Latin Verb System: Archaic Forms in Plautus, Terence, and Beyond (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, 2007-12-07 Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Greek and Roman Theatre Archive, Volume 2) by Niall W. Slater, 2000-06-01 Plautus: The Comedies - Volume II (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (Volume 2) Plautus' Curculio (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) by Titus Maccius Plautus, John Wright, 1993-10 Plautus, Volume 2 by Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon, 2010-04-20 Syntax Of Plautus by W. M Lindsay, 2009-11-23 Plautus: The Comedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (Volume 1)

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1. Plautus: Menaechmi
   Translate this page T. MACCI PLAVTI MENAECHMI. PERSONAE. PENICVLVS PARASITVS MENAECHMVS MENAECHMVS (SOSICLES) EROTIUM MERETRIX CYLINDRUS COCVS MESSENIO  
   http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/plaut.menaechmi.html

2. Plautus, Titus Maccius (c. 254-184 B.C.)
   A biography of the Roman playwright Titus Maccius plautus. plautus " the single name by which modern writers refer to this writer of Roman comedy, was merely a nickname which in It is doubtful whether plautus ever achieved Roman citizenship  
   http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/plautus_001.html
   
   Extractions: Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... Email Us TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS (c. 254-184 B.C.) " P LAUTUS," the single name by which modern writers refer to this writer of Roman comedy, was merely a nickname which in exact Umbrian dialect meant "flatfoot." It is exactly as though, today, we were to say, "John Jones, Beanpole." It is doubtful whether Plautus ever achieved Roman citizenship. He is supposed to have made money working around the Roman stages as carpenter or mechanic; to have set himself up in some sort of business where he promptly lost his entire savings; finally to have been reduced to turning a handmill for a baker. It is during this period, according to tradition, that he probably sold his first plays to the managers of the public games and thus began the playwriting career that lasted for nearly forty years. The plays of Plautus, as was the custom, had Greek characters, Greek names, and Greek scenery, but the manners and flavor were distinctly Roman. Most of his plots Plautus adopted whole from Greek originals of the "

3. Writings And Career Of Plautus
   A biography of the Roman dramatist plautus and analysis of his poetic qualities. Purchase Plays by plautus. Titus Maccius plautus was esteemed by the Romans as their greatest dramatist, and still  
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   Extractions: WRITINGS AND CAREER OF PLAUTUS This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 159-165. Purchase Plays by Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus was esteemed by the Romans as their greatest dramatist, and still holds a high rank among the comic writers of the world. Twenty of his plays are extant, and though a few of them are incomplete, they have reached us, in the main, as they were written. The maturity which comedy attained in a single generation affords remarkable contrast to the slow process by which other literature was developed in Rome. This is probably due to the dramatic and musical medleys, which, in their allusions to current events and their spirit of banter, must have had a close affinity with the dialogue of Plautus, and also to the use of the Latin language as the organ of business among urban communities. More, however, was due to the genius and command of language possessed by the two oldest creators of Roman literature, and Plautus.

4. Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 - C. 184 B.C.)
   Brief biography of Titus Maccius plautus, ancient Rome s bestknown playwrightplus links to all of his works currently in print. Titus Maccius plautus.  
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   Extractions: Titus Maccius Plautus Sometime around 254 B.C., in the tiny mountain village of Sarsina high in the Apennines of Umbria, ancient Rome's best-known playwright was bornTitus Maccius Plautus. Born "Plautus" or "splay-foot", he apparently managed to escape his backwoods village at a young ageperhaps by joining one of the itinerant theatrical troupes which commonly traveled from village to village performing short boisterous farces. We know, however, that at some point the young Plautus gave up his acting career to become a Roman soldier, and this is probably when he was exposed to the delights of the Greek stage, specifically Greek New Comedy and the plays of Menander . Sometime later, he tried his hand as a merchant, but rashly trusted his wares to the sea and at the age of 45, he found himself penniless and reduced to a wandering miller, trudging through the streets with a hand-mill, grinding corn for householders. Meanwhile, translations of Greek New Comedy had come into vogue and Plautuswho remembered the comedies of Menander from his days as a soldier in Southern Italydecided to try his hand at writing for the stage. His earliest plays

5. Plautus
   Amphitruo. Asinaria. Aulularia. Bacchides. Captivi. Casina. Cistellaria. Curculio. Epidicus. Menaechmi. Mercator. Miles Gloriosus. Mostellaria. Persa. Poenulus. Pseudolus. Rudens. Stichus. Trinummus .  
   http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/plaut.html

6. Plautus, Terence, And Cicero By Sanderson Beck
   BECK index. plautus, Terence, and Cicero. This chapter is part of the book ANCIENT WISDOM AND FOLLY, which TheMenaechmi by plautus is a comedy of errors, as Shakespeare called  
   http://www.san.beck.org/EC26-Cicero.html
   
   Extractions: Cicero on Ethics Roman culture originated out of Etruscan rituals and religion and was influenced greatly by the Greeks. Livy described how Etruscan dance and music were introduced in Rome during a plague in 364 BC to appease the gods. Histrionic gestures were developed into dialogs with plots adapted from Greek tragedies and comedies by a Greek slave named Livius Andronicus by 240 BC. Andronicus translated Homer's Odyssey into Latin, and it was used in schools for generations. Short Oscan plays from Campania using mime called fabula Atellana were based on the characters of the stupid clown Maccus, the bragging glutton Bucco, the foolish old Pappus, and the hunchback trickster Dossennus. In the late third century BC Gnaeus Naevius wrote an epic on the first Punic war , a few tragedies about the Trojan war, and dozens of comedies based on Greek plays as well as one play about Romulus and Remus and one about the victory by consul Marcellus over the Insubrian Gauls in 222 BC; the plays of Naevius were so critical of political figures that he was imprisoned and went into exile. Greek tragedies were also adapted by Quintius Ennius (239-169 BC), Marcus Pacuvius (c. 220-c. 130 BC), and Lucius Accius (170-c. 86 BC), and Greek comedies were translated by the freed Insubrian slave Caecilius Statius (c. 219-c. 166 BC), but these are all lost.

7. Reputation Of Plautus
   REPUTATION OF plautus. This document was originally published in The Drama Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. Back to plautus Index.  
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   Extractions: REPUTATION OF PLAUTUS This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 165-167. By the Romans themselves various judgements have been passed on Plautus . Varro says if the Muses were to speak Latin they would borrow his language. Quintilian and Aulus Gellius speak of him with the highest praise; but Horace, whose judgement should have great weight, is not so favorable, as this criticism shows: "But our forefathers were taken with the jokes and numbers of Plautus, and admired them with too much indulgence, not to call it stupidity, if it be true that either you or I can distinguish a genteel from a clownish expression, and have ears fine enough to judge of the harmony and beauty of versification." It appears that Horace was not alone in this opinion, and that the court of Augustus had no greater liking than he, either for the versification or the pleasantries of Plautus. As to his verses, it is certain that he was far from being exact. Nor is it less certain that he has flat, low and often extravagant pleasantries, but at the same time he has such as are fine and delicate. Cicero, for this reason, who was no bad judge of what the ancients called urbanity, proposes him as a model for raillery. The faults of Plautus, therefore, do not mar his excellence as a poet; they are very happily atoned for by many fine qualities, inasmuch that, in the judgment of some critics, he disputes the prize even with

8. Projekt Gutenberg-DE - Kultur - SPIEGEL ONLINE
   Novelle von 1882.  
   http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/cfmeyer/plautus/plautus.htm

9. Plautus
   Famous Romans Index. plautus. 251 B.C. 184 B.C. Titus Maccius plautus's birth appears to have been no later than 251 B.C. in Sarsina, a town of three thousand in Umbria. He died in or around 184 B.C. as a handyman in the theater and progressed to acting. plautus was fairly successful in theater  
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   Extractions: 251 B.C. - 184 B.C. Titus Maccius Plautus's birth appears to have been no later than 251 B.C. in Sarsina, a town of three thousand in Umbria. He died in or around 184 B.C. His life began surrounded by theater in one fashion or another. As a youth he worked as a handyman in the theater and progressed to acting. Plautus was fairly successful in theater. After his acting career, Plautus worked in several arenas. He was a merchant and also a moneylender. It was as a moneylender that he lost his wealth and became bankrupt. After this financial disaster and during the Second Punic War, he served in the Roman Army for a period of six years. Upon his return to Rome, Plautus, being too old to act, became a very popular dramatist. During this time he wrote the Saturio and the Addictus, among others. His plays could be seen in production long after his death. There has been much confusion in the past about which plays were actually Plautus' and which were imitators. It has been stated that Plautus had a habit of "touching up" plays written by others, which would lead to confusion. Later playwrights began to use some of his plays in their own plays. Menaechmi is the play on which Shakespeare based his own work Comedy of Errors.

10. Titus Maccius Plautus: Monologues
    An index of monologues by Titus Maccius plautus.  
    http://www.monologuearchive.com/p/plautus.html

11. Plauto
    Information on a high level seminar in Urbino, Italy organized by the International Plautine Studies (CISP) and PLAVTVS (Plautine Centre of Research, UrbinoSarsina).  
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    Extractions: UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI URBINO COMUNE DI SARSINA 2nd Plautine Days . From the 4th to the 8th September 2000 a Seminar of high scientific level for young Italian and foreign scholars will be held in Urbino organized by the International Plautine Studies (CISP) and PLAVTVS (Plautine Centre of Research, Urbino-Sarsina) and under the auspices of the Municipality of Sarsina and of the Institute of Ancient Civilization of the Urbino University. E.W. Handley (Cambridge), ´ Actoris opera´: words, action and acting in ´Dìs Exapatôn´ and ´Bacchides´ September 5th, 9.30 a.m. G. Guastella (Siena), Modelli culturali stranieri nelle Commedie di Plauto. 16.30 p.m. M. Bettini (Siena), Sterilità feconda: l'autoritratto di Gelasimo nello 'Stichus'. September 6th, 9.30 a.m. R. Oniga (Udine), I modelli del 'canticum' di Sosia. September 7th

12. Titus Maccius Plautus: Plays, Other Books
    Click Here. Back to Titus Maccius plautus. Titus Maccius plautus Plays Back to Titus Maccius plautus. Back to Moonstruck Drama Bookstore.  
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13. Greek And Roman Comedy
    A history of the comic drama, focusing on its origins and development in the works of Aristophanes, Menander, plautus and Terence.  
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    Extractions: GREEK AND ROMAN COMEDY This document was originally published in The Development of the Drama . Brander Matthews. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. pp. 74-106. Although the true dramatist cannot but conceive both the incidents of his play and its personages at the same moment, yet we are accustomed to consider tragedy and comedy nobler than melodrama and farce, because in the former the characters themselves seem to create the situations of the plot and to dominate its structure; whereas in the latter it is obvious rather that the situations have evoked the characters, and that these are realized only in so far as the conduct of the story may cause them to reveal the characteristics thus called for. Comedy, then, appears to us as a humorous piece, the action of which is caused by the clash of character on character; and this is a definition which fits THE MISANTHROPE , THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, and THE GENDRE DE M. POIRIER

14. Latin Texts
    A collection of latin texts Apuleius, Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Juvenal, Lucan, Lucretius, Livy, plautus, Pliny Major, Pliny Minor, Quintilian, Sallust, and Tacitus.  
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15. Plautus
    Pronunciation Key. plautus ( Titus Maccius plautus), c. 254184 B.C. Latin and governed by a genius for situation and coarse humor, plautus' comedies achieved a great reputation  
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    Extractions: Plautus u s] Pronunciation Key Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), c. 254 B.C. Amphitruo Amphitryon Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Miles gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus, and Vidularia (in fragments). See G. E. Duckworth, The Complete Roman Drama The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Plautus Nullus Me Est Hodie Poenus Poenior: Balanced Ethnic Humor in Plautus' Poenulus.(Critical Essay) (Helios) Playing house: stage, space, and domesticity in Plautus's Mostellaria.(Critical Essay) (Helios) Violence and the Performance of Class in Plautus' Casina.(Critical Essay) (Helios) Plautus, Titus Maccius (c. 250-c. 184 BC)

16. Römisches Theater
    Professor Stroh stellt die Geschichte des r¶mischen Theaters, die Gattungen, Rahmenbedingungen und die Beteiligten (Dichter, Schauspieler, etc) vor. AuŸerdem interpretiert er u. a. den Miles Gloriosus des plautus und die Hecyra des Terenz.  
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17. Plautus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    plautus. plautus s comedies, which are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature, are all adaptations of Greek models for a Roman audience.  
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    Extractions: Other languages: Deutsch Italiano Latina From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Titus Maccius Plautus was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic . The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about and 184 BCE . Twenty-one plays survive. Plautus' comedies , which are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature , are all adaptations of Greek models for a Roman audience. The characters remain in Greek settings, or perhaps a Greek setting imagined by a Roman. His most typical character is the clever slave who manipulates his master, undermining some of our conceptions of normal social relationships in the Roman world. Plautus' work gave ideas to many playwrights afterwards, such as William Shakespeare Molière Lessing and others. His comedies were also the basis for the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum See also: Terence

18. Plautus Prayers To Various Deities
    From the works of plautus, prayers to various gods and goddesses.  
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    Extractions: from the Plays of Plautus Apollo, quaeso te, ut des pacem propitius, salutem et sanitatem nostrae familiae, meoque ut parcas gnato pace propitius (Apollo, I beseech you, graciously grant peace, safety and sound health to our family, and spare my son by your gracious favour) (Mercator, 678-680) Spes Bona, obsecro, subventa mihi, exime ex hoc miseram metu (Good Hope, please hear and aid me, and help me out of my misfortune) (Rudens, 231-2) Di Penates meium parentum, familiai Lar pater, vobis mando, meum parentum rem bene ut tutemini (Divine Penates of my parents, Lar father of the family, I commend to you the good fortune of my parents, (and ) that you guard them well) (Mercator, 834-5) Larem corona nostrum decor(o)... venerare ut nobis haec habitatio bona fausta felix fortunataque evenat (I... adorn our Lar with a garland, so that we and our house may have good fortune, happiness and prosperity) (Trinummus, 39-41) Di, obsecro vostram fidem (Gods, keep faith, I beg you) (Cistellaria, 663)

19. Plautus
    WebQuest an inquiryoriented learning environment that makes good use of the Web. The Emperor is a huge fan of plautus, he even knows Captivi by heart production is a classical production of  
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