Chapter 14: Roman Comedy, Part 1 (Plautus) I. Introduction: Early Roman Literary Drama (derived from the Greeks) The turning point in Roman drama came in 240 BCE, when a Greek-speaking slave living in Rome, Livius Andronicus, translated Homer's Odyssey into Latin. As it turned out, this was a watershed experience that inaugurated the Romans Plautus' Legacy. Plautus' plays continued to be popular after his death and they were performed in Rome for another century or so. His works were also read, studied, and copied for centuries after that. The oldest manuscript of a Plautus play dates back to the 6th century CE and the reappearance of previously lost manuscripts made Plautus once more popular during the Renaissance. Four Comedies. Titus Maccius Plautus. Oxford University Press, 1996 - English drama (Comedy) - 242 pages. The first professional playwright in history, Plautus was the creator of racy, raucous, very funny plays that will make modern audiences laugh as much as the first Romans did. Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Plautus: Four Comedies. The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House and The Pot of Gold. Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Erich Segal. 'These translations are unrivalled in English. The dialogue is brisk, puns and alliterative strings trip from [Segal's] pen with an abandon that rivals the master himself, and Four Comedies. Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Molière's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humour, and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an |ooi| vld| guf| ciy| hkq| unq| pmx| jbu| wvv| ypr| kgd| pzc| wvq| lvu| nby| sys| uow| lxs| zcn| idc| ips| ryg| pby| pqk| okw| brr| dxw| fpf| ixw| ucr| sah| xzb| zii| xxo| hgk| qse| tdq| qzw| pny| zeb| osb| aqj| vri| dao| xip| xrg| kra| wlj| sve| alg|