Casina. The Casket Comedy. Curculio. Epidicus. The Two Menaechmuses

Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliere to modern times. This second volume of a new Loeb edition of all twenty-one of Plautus' extant comedies presents Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, and Menaechmi with freshly edited texts, lively modern translations, introductions, and ample explanatory notes.

About the author

Wolfgang de Melo is University Lecturer in Classical Philology at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Product details

• Authors: Plautus
• Assisted by: de Melo Wolfgang (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2011
• EAN: 9780674996786
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99678-6
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 170 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, Latin, 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