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Plautus

The Darker Comedies "Bacchides", "Casina", and "Truculentus"

Plautus( )
Author: Tatum, James
Slavitt, David R.
Editor: Bovie, Palmer
Plautus, T. Maccius
ISBN:978-0-8018-2900-0
Publication Date:Jun 1983
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.00USD $24.00
Book Description:

The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general.

A common theme in all three comedies is the triumph of women over men. In Truculentus, prostitutes snare all of the men in the play; in Bacchides, the victims include fathers and sons. In Casina, Plautus creates a fantasy that turns traditional social and sexual roles upside down. The plays'...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Drama / European / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 Inches
Book Weight:1 Pounds
Author Biography
Tatum, James (Author)
David R. Slavitt was born in White Plains, New York in 1935. He received an AB and an MA from Columbia University. After graduating from college and beginning a Ph.D., he worked as a movie critic for Newsweek from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s. During this time, he published his first book of poetry, Suits for the Dead. His first novel, Rochelle, or Virtue Rewarded, was published in 1966.

He has written about 100 works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation including Alice at 80, The Cock Book, Falling from Silence: Poems, The Latin Odes of Jean Dorat, Milton's Latin Poems, and Three Greenlandic Poets. He also writes under the names David Benjamin, Henry Lazarus, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Sutton. As Henry Sutton, he has written less "literary" works that have sold well such as The Exhibitionist and The Sacrifice: A Novel of the Occult.

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