Plautus - The Comedies

"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals, the plays of Plautus are accessible to a new generation.
Plays and translators:
Volume 1: Amphitryon, Constance Carrier. Miles Gloriosus, Erich Segal. Captivi, Richard Moore. Casina, Richard Beacham. Curculio, Henry Taylor
Volume 2: Rudens, Constance Carrier. Aulularia, Palmer Bovie. Bacchides, James Tatum. Mercator, George Garrett. Truculentus, James Tatum

About the author

David R. Slavitt is a poet, translator, novelist, critic, and journalist. He is author of more than seventy works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation.Palmer Bovie has published many translations of classical Roman literature, including The Georgics of Virgil, The Satires and Epistles of Horace, Cicero: Nine Orations, Epigrams of Martial, De Rerum Natura of Lucretius, and Terence: The Comedies.

Product details

• Authors: Plautus, David R. Slavitt
• Assisted by: Palmer Bovie (Editor), David R. Slavitt (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1995
• EAN: 9780801850714
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-5071-4
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 628 g
• Series: Plautus (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Antike, Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, DRAMA / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism