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The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Classics) by Plautus, 1965-09-30 The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus, 1964-05-30 Plautus: Pseudolus (Bristol Latin Texts Series) by M Willcock, 2009-09-30 Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics) by Plautus, 2008-06-15 The Mostellaria by Titus Maccius Plautus, 2009-12-24 Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus by Erich Segal, 1987-05-21 The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience by Timothy J. Moore, 1998 The Early Latin Verb System: Archaic Forms in Plautus, Terence, and Beyond (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, 2007-12-07 Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Greek and Roman Theatre Archive, Volume 2) by Niall W. Slater, 2000-06-01 Plautus: The Comedies - Volume II (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (Volume 2) Plautus' Curculio (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) by Titus Maccius Plautus, John Wright, 1993-10 Plautus, Volume 2 by Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon, 2010-04-20 Syntax Of Plautus by W. M Lindsay, 2009-11-23 Plautus: The Comedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (Volume 1)

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1. Plautus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Titus Maccius plautus (c. 254–184 BCE), commonly known as plautus, was a Roman playwright. His comedies are among the earliest surviving intact works in  
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   Extractions: Rome Nationality Roman Ethnicity ... Umbrian Information Period Ancient Rome Genre farce Magnum opus Amphitruo (c. 185 BCE) Dramatic devices stock characters Influences Menander Aristophanes Influenced William Shakespeare Moli¨re Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BCE), commonly known as Plautus , was a Roman playwright . His comedies are among the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature . He is also one of the earliest pioneers of musical theater . The word Plautine is used to refer to Plautus's works or works similar to or influenced by his. Little is known about Titus Maccius Plautus' early life. It is believed that he was born in Sarsina (a city in Umbria ) around 254 BCE. According to Morris Marples, Plautus worked as a stage-carpenter or scene-shifter in his early years. It is from this work, perhaps, that his love of the theater originated. His acting talent was eventually discovered; and he adopted the names "Maccius" (a clownish stock-character in popular farces) and "Plautus" (a term meaning either "flat-footed" or "flat-eared," as the ears of a hound ). Tradition holds that he made enough money to go into the nautical business, but that the venture collapsed. He is then said to have worked as a manual laborer and to have studied Greek drama—particularly the

2. Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 - C. 184 B.C.)
   Brief biography of Titus Maccius plautus, ancient Rome s bestknown playwrightplus links to all of his works currently in print.  
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   Extractions: Titus Maccius Plautus Sometime around 254 B.C., in the tiny mountain village of Sarsina high in the Apennines of Umbria, ancient Rome's best-known playwright was bornTitus Maccius Plautus. Born "Plautus" or "splay-foot", he apparently managed to escape his backwoods village at a young ageperhaps by joining one of the itinerant theatrical troupes which commonly traveled from village to village performing short boisterous farces. We know, however, that at some point the young Plautus gave up his acting career to become a Roman soldier, and this is probably when he was exposed to the delights of the Greek stage, specifically Greek New Comedy and the plays of Menander . Sometime later, he tried his hand as a merchant, but rashly trusted his wares to the sea and at the age of 45, he found himself penniless and reduced to a wandering miller, trudging through the streets with a hand-mill, grinding corn for householders. Meanwhile, translations of Greek New Comedy had come into vogue and Plautuswho remembered the comedies of Menander from his days as a soldier in Southern Italydecided to try his hand at writing for the stage. His earliest plays

3. Plautus, Titus Maccius
   A biography of the Roman playwright Titus Maccius plautus.  
   http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/plautus_001.html
   
   Extractions: TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS (c. 254-184 B.C.) The following biography was originally published in Minute History of the Drama "PLAUTUS," the single name by which modern writers refer to this writer of Roman comedy, was merely a nickname which in exact Umbrian dialect meant "flatfoot." It is exactly as though, today, we were to say, "John Jones, Beanpole." It is doubtful whether Plautus ever achieved Roman citizenship. He is supposed to have made money working around the Roman stages as carpenter or mechanic; to have set himself up in some sort of business where he promptly lost his entire savings; finally to have been reduced to turning a handmill for a baker. It is during this period, according to tradition, that he probably sold his first plays to the managers of the public games and thus began the playwriting career that lasted for nearly forty years. The plays of Plautus, as was the custom, had Greek characters, Greek names, and Greek scenery, but the manners and flavor were distinctly Roman. Most of his plots Plautus adopted whole from Greek originals of the " New Comedy " period. If we find the comedies of Plautus unspeakably vulgar in conception and expression we must remember that he had to appeal to an uneducated crowd whose chief interests were in bear baiting and gladiatorial combats. If Plautus was to eat, his humor had to be broad or his plays would have been shouted off the stage.

4. Writings And Career Of Plautus
   A biography of the Roman dramatist plautus and analysis of his poetic qualities.  
   http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/plautus001.html
   
   Extractions: WRITINGS AND CAREER OF PLAUTUS This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 159-165. Purchase Plays by Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus was esteemed by the Romans as their greatest dramatist, and still holds a high rank among the comic writers of the world. Twenty of his plays are extant, and though a few of them are incomplete, they have reached us, in the main, as they were written. The maturity which comedy attained in a single generation affords remarkable contrast to the slow process by which other literature was developed in Rome. This is probably due to the dramatic and musical medleys, which, in their allusions to current events and their spirit of banter, must have had a close affinity with the dialogue of Plautus, and also to the use of the Latin language as the organ of business among urban communities. More, however, was due to the genius and command of language possessed by the two oldest creators of Roman literature, and Plautus.

5. Plautus - Roman Playwright Titus Maccius Plautus
   plautus was the greatest Roman comic playwright, Titus Maccius plautus was born 254 BC in Umbria and died in 184. He was reputed to have written 130 pieces.  
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6. Plautus --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on plautus great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman  
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   Extractions: Commonly Asked Questions About Plautus Close Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Plautus , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership. Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content. For more details about this feature, visit our

7. Titus Maccius Plautus: Monologues
   An index of monologues by Titus Maccius plautus.  
   http://www.monologuearchive.com/p/plautus.html

8. Plautus, Terence, And Cicero By Sanderson Beck
   The only surviving ancient Roman plays are the 21 comedies (one only in fragments) by plautus listed by Varro as authentic, six comedies by Terence,  
   http://san.beck.org/EC26-Cicero.html
   
   Extractions: For information on ordering click here. Roman culture originated out of Etruscan rituals and religion and was influenced greatly by the Greeks. Livy described how Etruscan dance and music were introduced in Rome during a plague in 364 BC to appease the gods. Histrionic gestures were developed into dialogs with plots adapted from Greek tragedies and comedies by a Greek slave named Livius Andronicus by 240 BC. Andronicus translated Homer's Odyssey into Latin, and it was used in schools for generations. Short Oscan plays from Campania using mime called fabula Atellana were based on the characters of the stupid clown Maccus, the bragging glutton Bucco, the foolish old Pappus, and the hunchback trickster Dossennus. In the late third century BC Gnaeus Naevius wrote an epic on the first Punic war , a few tragedies about the Trojan war, and dozens of comedies based on Greek plays as well as one play about Romulus and Remus and one about the victory by consul Marcellus over the Insubrian Gauls in 222 BC; the plays of Naevius were so critical of political figures that he was imprisoned and went into exile. Greek tragedies were also adapted by Quintius Ennius (239-169 BC), Marcus Pacuvius (c. 220-c. 130 BC), and Lucius Accius (170-c. 86 BC), and Greek comedies were translated by the freed Insubrian slave Caecilius Statius (c. 219-c. 166 BC), but these are all lost. Plautus

9. Aulu.main.html
   This page is designed to be viewed by a browser which supports Netscape s Frames extension. This text will be shown by browsers which do not support the  
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10. 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
    
    Extractions: 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

11. Plautus: Pseudolus
    verum si voltis adplaudere atque adprobare hunc gregem et fabulam, in crastinum vos vocabo. plautus The Latin Library The Classics Page.  
    http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/plautus/pseudolus.shtml

12. T. Maccius Plautus, Amphitruo (ed. F. Leo)
    Cross references from W. M. Lindsay, Syntax of plautus T. Maccius plautus. Plauti Comoediae. F. Leo. Berlin. Weidmann. 1895. OCLC 38932877  
    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0030

13. Plautus — Infoplease.com
    Written with a mastery of idiomatic spoken Latin and governed by a genius for situation and coarse humor, plautus comedies achieved a great reputation.  
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    Extractions: in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Search White Pages Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips google_ad_client = 'pub-1894504138907931'; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; google_ad_format = '120x240_as'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_ad_channel =''; google_color_border = ['336699','B4D0DC','DFF2FD','B0E0E6']; google_color_bg = ['FFFFFF','ECF8FF','DFF2FD','FFFFFF']; google_color_link = ['0000FF','0000CC','0000CC','000000']; google_color_url = ['008000','008000','008000','336699']; google_color_text = ['000000','6F6F6F','000000','333333']; Encyclopedia Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) u s) [ key B.C. Amphitruo Amphitryon Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Miles gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus, and Vidularia (in fragments).

14. Plautus - Wikiquote
    Titus Maccius plautus (254 BC 184 BC, born at Sassina, Umbria) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic.  
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    Extractions: 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. Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. Mostellaria , Act I, sc. iii, l. 40 Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge. From the Latin "Bibite, pergraecamini, ese, ecfercite vos." Mostellaria Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. Epidicus , Act III, sc. iii, l. 44. What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. Trinummus , Act II, sc. ii, l. 48 Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. Trinummus , Act II, sc. ii, l. 88 There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. Captivi , Act II, sc. ii, l, 77 Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Rudens , Act II, sc. v, l. 71 Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. Truculentus , Act IV, sc. iv, l. 15

15. Titus Maccius Plautus
    Writer The Boys from Syracuse. Latin poet and dramatist, who was born at Mercato Saraceno in Umbria . Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions,  
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    Extractions: Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP TITUS... DVD VHS CD IMDb Titus Maccius Plautus Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography other works contact miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips advertisement photos board add contact details Date of Birth: 254 BC, Sarsina, Italy more Date of Death: 184 BC, Rome, Italy more Mini Biography: Latin poet and dramatist, who was born at Mercato Saraceno in Umbria.... more Writer: The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors

16. Titus Maccius Plautus Quotes - The Quotations Page
    Titus Maccius plautus; I am always afraid of your something shall be done. Titus Maccius plautus; It well becomes a young man to be modest.  
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17. Harvard University Press: Plautus, I, Amphitryon. The Comedy Of Asses. The Pot O
    plautus, I, Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives by plautus, published by Harvard University Press.  
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    Extractions: Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies. BCE Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus ); of intrigue with a recognition theme ( The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio ); plays which develop character ( The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus ); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the Menaechmi ; caused on purpose as in Amphitryon ); plays of domestic life ( The Merchant, Casina, both unpleasant; Trinummus, Stichus, both pleasant). The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes. Mason Hammond is Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus, Harvard University Miles Gloriosus Plautus, II, Casina. The Casket Comedy. Curculio. Epidicus. The Two Menaechmuses Plautus, III, The Merchant. The Braggart Warrior. The Haunted House. The Persian Plautus, IV, The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope ... Menaechmi Plautus, II, Casina. The Casket Comedy. Curculio. Epidicus. The Two Menaechmuses

18. Plautus Vol I
    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, by plautus Titus Maccius This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at  
    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16564/16564-h/16564-h.htm
    
    Extractions: The Project Gutenberg EBook of Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, by Plautus Titus Maccius This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Author: Plautus Titus Maccius Editor: Paul Nixon Translator: Paul Nixon Release Date: August 20, 2005 [EBook #16564] Language: English/latin Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF PLAUTUS *** Produced by Ted Garvin, Louise Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net A few typographical errors have been corrected. They have been marked in the text with popups . Greek words that may not display correctly in all browsers are similarly transliterated:

19. RomanComedy
    plautus and Terence, out of the early period, had a huge influence on Comedy in Europe after the Renaissance.  
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    Extractions: ROMAN COMEDY: Plautus and Terence The Greek world came to fruition sometime in the 7th c. BC, and was still culturally active throughout the period in which the Roman Empire flourished. By 300 BC Greek culture had subtly shifted over to what would later be called Hellenistic, which refers to the transplanting of Greek ideas and techniques to all parts of the then known world, both East and West. The Jews of Palestine, the populace of Egypt, the Syrians, Armenians and the Romans in their turn were exposed to the indelible influence of Greek thought, just as the Arabs of the 7 c. AD were to be influenced in the same way. It was this fermentative quality in the Greek mind which proved so attractive to less cultivated peoples, and although everybody benefitted, nobody was ever the same again. By 300 BC the Romans began to seriously sense the presence of Greek literature. Centuries earlier they had received an altered Greek alphabet from the Etruscans in central Italy, now they became basically literate and ready to read. Much of the writing which resulted from this first Hellenizing influx was lost, and the little we know of writers like Accius, Pacuvius, Caecilius and Lucilius comes from the quotations of words, single lines, and only occasionally coherent paragraphs by the late Roman grammarians. We would have a similar idea of the work of Shakespeare if we assembled all the single-line quotations from a large English dictionary. The texts we have were touched up at least in orthography in the time of Cicero, and were used as required reading in the Roman school system for centuries. Plautus' vocabulary is huge, he uses strange and rare expressions, when pressed invents his own punning coinages, and shows an interesting side of the Roman character which disappears in the more self-conscious Augustan Age.

20. Literary Encyclopedia: Titus Maccius Plautus
    Titus Maccius plautus was the first poet to break with this tradition and dedicate his entire theatrical career to the composition of comedies,  
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