Categorii: Diverse
Legare: Paperback
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2007
Editura: Penguin Books
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 288
Colectie: Classics S.
Traducatori: E.F. Watling
ISBN 10: 0140441360
Țara de origine: UNITED KINGDOM
Titlu Original: The Rope And Other Stories
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140441369
Dimensiuni: l: 128cm | H: 198cm | 218g
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molière and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is thrown into disarray when he returns from abroad, a theme that is explored further in the comedy of errors A Three-Dollar Day. In The Rope - regarded by many as the best of Plautus' plays - the shipwreck of a pimp and his slaves leads to the touching reunion of a father and his daughter, while Amphitryo, Plautus's only excursion into divine mythology, offers a cheerful account of how Jupiter became father to Hercules.