The Miser
The character of Euclio in his "Aulularia" was to be particularly influential, as was the complicating subplot of a marriageable daughter. One of the earliest Renaissance writers to adapt the play was the Croatian Marin Držić in about 1555, whose "Skup" (The Miser) is set in Dubrovnik. Ben Jonson adapted elements from Plautus for his early comedy "The Case is Altered" (c. 1597). The miser there is the Milanese Jaques de Prie, who has a (supposed) daughter, Rachel. Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft and Samuel Coster followed with their very popular Dutch comedy "Warenar" (1617). The play is named from the miser, whose daughter is Claartje. Molière adapted Plautus' play into French as "L'Avare" (The Miser, 1668) while in England Thomas Shadwell adapted Molière's work in 1672 and a version based on both Plautus and Molière was produced by Henry Fielding in 1732. Among later adaptations there was Vasily Pashkevich's 18th-century Russian comic opera "The Miser" and pioneering dramatic works in Arabic by Marun al-Naqqash (1817–55) and in Serbian by Jovan Sterija Popović.