The Rope and Other Plays

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, Moliere 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.

ISBN 0140441360   Part volume "The Ghost","The Rope"," Three-Dollar Day","Amphitryo" ISBN13 9780140441369 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 217 Imprint Penguin Classics   Language English Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 28 Aug 1975   Series title Classics S. Translator E.F. Watling   Height (mm) 198 DEWEY 872.01   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 17 Pages 288   Academic level General

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