The Merchant, The Braggart Soldier, The Ghost, The Persian

Informationen zum Autor Wolfgang de Melo is University Lecturer in Classical Philology at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Klappentext The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliere to modern times. This is the third volume of all twenty-one of Plautus's extant comedies. Zusammenfassung The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, 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.

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• Authors: Plautus, Titus M. Plautus, Titus Maccius Plautus, Wolfgang (EDT) Plautus/ De Melo
• Assisted by: Wolfgang De Melo (Editor), Wolfgang De Melo (Translation), de Melo Wolfgang (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2011
• EAN: 9780674996823
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99682-3
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 170 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, DRAMA / General, Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts