Rope and Other Plays : The Ghost; the Rope - A Three-Dollar Day - Amphitryo
, by Plautus (Author); Watling, E. F. (Translator); Watling, E. F. (Introduction by)Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780140441369 | 0140441360
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/1975
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, Moli+re 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.