Plautus

The keyword Plautus is tagged in the following 2 articles.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Satiric Perspective on Courtly Love

November 3, 2011 - 2322 words | English » Shakespeare

In Plautus’ Roman Comedies, the stock character of the slave employs mistaken identity or a disguise to deceive his master and others to invert the social order of the play, characterizing the slave as intelligent, cunning, and deceitful. Michael Shapiro writes... Read Article »

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the Inverted Plautine Comedy

April 12, 2010 - 2434 words | English » Plautus

The first line of Plautus’ epitaph reads: “Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget, scaena est deserta,” or roughly translated, “since Plautus is dead, comedy mourns, deserted is the stage” (Garrod, 531). While his body... Read Article »

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