Three comedies
By: Plautus ; translated with an introduction by Robert Wind.
Contributors: Wind, Robert Lewis.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "The special genius of the Roman comic poet Plautus is the wedding of native Italian farce with the mature and polished constructions of Greek comedy. The three plays translated in this book all contain that almost inevitable kernel of Greek comic plot: the love affair. But they have little else in common. In the first, a self-inflating soldier tries to live up to his image of himself as a lover. In the second, a beautiful maiden is rescued from an evil pimp. And in the third, an ill-starred husband fancies himself in love with his wife's young housemaid. Clever, or at least ambitious, slaves tend to move the action, in which the rudeness of farce merges with exuberant wit, satire, and parody."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The braggart warrior; title: The rope; title: Casina.