21. Bolchazy.com: Latin � Easily the best known of plautus’ plays, Menaechmi’s popularity has rested on its broad farcical humor and exuberant dialogue. This edition aims to make a first reading the http://www.bolchazy.com/prod.php?cat=latin&id=0074

22. Plautus: Free Encyclopedia Articles At Questia.com Online Library Research plautus and other related topics by using the free encyclopedia at the Questia.com online library. http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/101265086

23. Plautus@Everything2.com Splay foot Actor / soldier / merchant who became the most famous playwright (to us) of Ancient Rome. Born c. 254 BC. plautus mainly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences http://everything2.com/title/Plautus

Near Matches Ignore Exact Everything Plautus ("Plautus" is also a: user person by Sat Jun 02 2001 at 7:05:16 "Splay foot" Actor soldier merchant who became the most famous playwright (to us) of Ancient Rome. Born c. 254 BC. Plautus mainly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences, adding topical references, slapstick , whatever it took to get the audience laughing. He composed 130 pieces including musical s, although only 21 of his works have survived to this day none with music. He was eventually granted citizenship and given permission to assume three names like a true-born Roman . Titus Maccius (" clown ") Plautus died c. 184 BC, although his works would influence later playwrights, including William Shakespeare Comedy of Errors Moliere The Miser ), and Larry Gelbart and Stephen Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum I like it! person by Gone Jackal Sun Mar 25 2001 at 18:04:38 Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman actor and playwright , born 254 B.C. in Umbria , died 184 B.C., the year of Cato the Elder 's censor ship, probably in Rome . He probably began his career "in operis artificum scaenicorum" ("in the works of the stage-artisans"

24. Plautus (Roman Dramatist) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia plautus (Roman dramatist), c. 254 bc Sarsina, Umbria? Italy 184great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/464334/Plautus

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25. Amphitryon (play) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Amphitryon is a Latin play for the early Roman theatre by playwright Titus Maccius plautus. plautus’ only play on a mythological subject, he refers to it as a tragicomoedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphitryon_(play)

Amphitryon (play) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Amphitryon Plautus Written by Plautus Characters Mercury Jupiter Sosia (Amphitryon’s slave) Amphitryon Alcmena (Amphitryon’s wife) Blepharo (ship’s pilot) Bromia (Alcmena’s maid) Setting Thebes , before the house of Amphitryon Amphitryon is a Latin play for the early Roman theatre by playwright Titus Maccius Plautus . Plautus’ only play on a mythological subject, he refers to it as a tragicomoedia (tragic comedy) in the prologue . It includes Amphitryon ’s jealous and confused reaction to Alcmena ’s seduction by Jupiter , and ends with the birth of Hercules Contents Plot Translations References External links ... edit Plot Amphitryon begins with a prologue given by the god Mercury , in which he gives some background information to the audience. Amphitryon and his slave Sosia have been away at war and are returning to Thebes . Meanwhile, the god Jupiter is sleeping with Amphitryon’s wife Alcmena . Jupiter is in the guise of Amphitryon so that Alcmena is unaware that he is not her husband.

26. Plautus - Wikiquote Titus Maccius plautus (254 BC 184 BC, born at Sassina, Umbria) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Plautus

Plautus From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC, born at Sassina, Umbria) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC. edit Sourced The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless. Amphitryon , Act I, scene i. Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains! Amphitryon , Act II, scene ii. Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing. Amphitryon , Act II, scene ii. Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. Mostellaria , Act I, scene iii, line 40 Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience. Mostellaria , Act V, scene i, line 14. Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

27. Plautus (c. 254-184 B.C.) A biography of the Roman playwright plautus; includes a list of related links. http://www.usefultrivia.com/biographies/plautus_001.html

PLAUTUS P LAUTUS was born in Umbria about the middle of the third century B.C. He is said to have been a slave and afterwards a stage-carpenter. But these may be stories invented to account for his knowledge of slave character and his connection, though a man of humble origin, with the theatre. He produced his first play in 224 B.C., and wrote without a rival till his death forty years later. Twenty of his plays remain. Like his successors, and Terence , he was largely indebted to Menander and the later comedians of Athens, though he is probably more original than either of them. His method of borrowing in some points resembles that of Shakespeare himself. Characters with Greek names, and nominally living in Greek cities, act as Romans, and refer to Roman customs as familiar things and to the Greeks as foreigners. For this reason the plays of Plautus are much more valuable than those of Terence as pictures of Roman life. In one play, the Poenulus , or Young Carthaginian, written at the time of the second Punic War, we have a unique picture of the Roman enemies drawn by the popular Roman poet; and it is very fairly and generously drawn. Plautus, like Terence, draws only on recognised types of the later Athenian comedythe stern or indulgent father, the spendthrift son, the clever and faithful slave, and the shameless parasitewho were all classified and fitted with a characteristic mask. Considering these limits, the genius of Plautus for developing amusing situations and lively dialogue is very great and has been appreciatedin adaptations and imitationsby Shakespeare

28. Plautus — Infoplease.com Encyclopedia plautus. plautus (Titus Maccius plautus) (pl 't u s) , c.254–184 B.C., Roman writer of comedies, b. Umbria. His plays, adapted from those of Greek New Comedy http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839341.html

29. PLAUTUS plautus Titus Maccius plautus (c.254184BC) Born in Umbria, plautus moved to Rome where he became an actor, probably playing Maccus in the fabula Atellanae, hence his http://www.wayneturney.20m.com/plautus.htm

Home Page Acting Resume Playwrighting Resume Directing Resume Teaching Resume Hickory Hideout Theatre Administration Biography Essays, etc. Olio Actor's Equity Association, SAG, AFTRA A Glimpse of Theater History PLAUTUS Titus Maccius Plautus (c.254-184BC) Born in Umbria, Plautus moved to Rome where he became an actor, probably playing Maccus in the fabula Atellanae, hence his middle name Maccus is a simple, gluttonous fool ala John Belushi in Animal House. According to one probably apochryphal legend, Plautus was so successful financially as an actor that he decided to go into business at which he failed, losing all his money. He then supposedly took a job at a mill and used his spare time to write plays. In any case, his background as an actor undoubtedly accounts for the "playability" of his material. They generally "work." Plautus' plays were apparently written to amuseto actually make people laugh rather than to grind some political or pholosophical axe. They reflect his practical background in Italian popular comedy as well as the influence of Greek New Comedy. (See Menander) In fact all of Plautus' characters pretend to be Greek ( fabulae palliatae ). The plays are usually set in or near Athens. Plautus enjoys spoofing the "Greekish" tone of of the plays. For example, in

30. Plautus Resources about plautus Titus Maccius plautus was one of ancient Rome's greatest playwrights. He was born in Sarsina, Umbria in about 254 BC. http://www.unrv.com/culture/plautus.php

Home Forum Empire Government ... Support Roman Culture Architecture Mythology Religion Gladiator ... Slavery Roman Literature: Writers Latin Language Latin Alphabet Plautus Plautus: adapting New Comedy for the Roman stage Titus Maccius Plautus was one of ancient Rome's greatest playwrights. He was born in Sarsina, Umbria in about 254 BC. Little is known about his life but it is believed that he worked as a stage carpenter as a young man. Plautus eventually went into business as a merchant shipper and according to tradition worked as a miller's labourer after his venture collapsed. He studied Greek drama in his spare time and from the age of forty onwards achieved increasing success as an adaptor of Greek comedies for the Roman stage. Plautus's plays were mainly derived from Greek works belonging to the New Comedy Style. New Comedy plays were essentially social comedies of manners usually featuring the domestic life of the middle and upper classes. They were very "clean" compared to plays from the Greek Old Comedy genre which commonly used vulgar expressions and jokes - Aristophanes's plays being a case in point. Another typical characteristic of New Comedy was the generalised use of stock characters: the helpful slave, the young lovers, the strict father, the pimp, and so on. By the time Plautus began to write, New Comedy was becoming fairly popular in the Roman world. Following more primitive dramatic forms such as the

31. Plautus Quotes 8 quotes and quotations by plautus Related Authors Samuel Beckett Arthur Miller W. Somerset Maugham Noel Coward http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plautus.html

32. Hompage: Titus Maccius Plautus Enth lte Textausschnitte aus den Kom dien des r mischen Dichters, neuzeitliche Literatur ber seine Werke und eine umfangreiche thematisierte Linkliste. http://www.titus-maccius-plautus.de/

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33. Plautus - History For Kids! plautus for Kids the ancient Roman playwright During the Roman Republic, when the Romans first began to go to plays, there weren't any plays written in Latin, only http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/literature/plautus.htm

34. Plautus Biography | BookRags.com plautus biography, including 4 pages of information on the life of plautus. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/plautus/

35. Grex-plautina.de: Antikes R�misches Theater Und Die Theatergruppe Grex Plautina Stellt das r mische Theater unter historischen, gesellschaftlichen und architektonischen Gesichtspunkten dar, informiert ber Theatergattungen und Dichter (plautus, Terenz) und beschreibt Inszenierungen der Menaechmi, Mostellaria und des Satyricon von Petron. http://www.grex-plautina.de/

Hier findet man Informationen rund um das antike roemische Theater und um die Theatergruppe Grex Plautina.

36. Malaspina Great Books - Plautus (c. 254 BC-184 BC) Malaspina Great Books, Established 1995; Created by Russell McNeil, PhD, Visitors http://www.malaspina.org/plautus.htm

37. Wilfried Stroh: Römisches Theater Professor Stroh stellt die Geschichte des r mischen Theaters, die Gattungen, Rahmenbedingungen und die Beteiligten (Dichter und Schauspieler) vor. Au erdem interpretiert er den Miles Gloriosus des plautus und die Hecyra des Terenz. http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~stroh/schriften/roemtheater.html

Wilfried Stroh Literarisches Schauspiel als Massenunterhaltung spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae ludi Romani saturae modis impletae saturae mythos , lat.: argumentum Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes / intulit agresti Latio ). Rom ging beim unterworfenen Griechenland in die Schule. fabulae praetextae , d. h. "Dramen in der praetexta fabulae togatae tria corda O poetam egregium! togatae Oderint dum metuant De arte poetica Medea ludi ludi Romani (im September), die ludi plebei ludi votivi (Spiele ex voto), etwa zu Tempelweihungen und Triumphen, und vor allem auch ludi funebres Hecyra Dichter, Regisseure, Schauspieler und Geld grex ), genauer gesagt: deren Oberhaupt ( dominus gregis Das geringste Ansehen aber hat der Schauspieler ( actor oder histrio corpore quaestum facere dominus gregis infamis Graecia capta cavea ), eingeteilt in nach oben anwachsende Keile ( cunei proscaenium oder pulpitum orchestra aulaeum Den Namen scaena praetexta und togata cothurnus ) genannte ( fabula cothurnata fabula palliata pallium trabeata tibicen , d. h. des Spielers auf der

38. Aulularia: Information From Answers.com Aululāria (‘pot of gold’) , Roman comedy by plautus , probably adapted from a Greek comedy by Menander . The prologue is spoken by the lar familiaris (see LARES ). Euclio http://www.answers.com/topic/aulularia

var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library Animal Life Health History, Politics, Society ... Technology Aulularia Classical Literature Companion: Aululāria Home Library Classical Literature Companion Aululāria (‘pot of gold’) , Roman comedy by Plautus , probably adapted from a Greek comedy by Menander . The prologue is spoken by the lar familiaris (see LARES Euclio, an old miser, has found a pot full of treasure buried in his house. He hides it and continues to pretend poverty, for fear that the treasure will be taken from him. His daughter Phaedria has been seduced, at a feast of Ceres, by Lyconides, a young man who is now repentant and wishes to marry her. But meanwhile his uncle Megadorus approaches Euclio with a view to marrying her himself. Euclio, thinking that Megadorus has designs on the treasure, takes it away from his house and hides it in one place after another. He is seen by a slave of Lyconides, who removes it. Euclio is in despair at its loss. (The end of the play is lost, but it may be supposed that Lyconides restores the treasure to Euclio, who in gratitude agrees to his marriage to Phaedria). The play is especially noteworthy for the character of the old miser, on whom Molière's character Harpagon in

39. Plautus | Define Plautus At Dictionary.com , c254–c184 b.c., Roman dramatist. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Plautus

40. Plautus (Roman Dramatist) :: Approach To Drama -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia plautus (Roman dramatist), Approach to drama, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, The Roman predecessors of plautus in both tragedy and comedy borrowed most of their plots and all of http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/464334/Plautus/5775/Approach-to-drama

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