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 The Dramatic Values in Plautus - by Wilton Wallace Blancké
From this heterogeneous mass of diversified criticism we glean the prevailing idea that Plautus is lauded or condemned according to his conformity or non-conformity to some preconceived standard of comedy situate in the critic's mind, without a consideration of the poet's original purpose.
We repeat, the evidence all points irresistibly to the conclusion that Plautus is wholly careless of his dramatic machinery so long as it moves.
who condemns Plautus' persistent use of direct address of the audience.
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext06/8plut10h.htm

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.04.23
This is not convincing to me, but it follows a certain logic, and those who are ready to believe in the premises, will also accept Benz's conclusions, i.
He supposes that the main sources of Roman knowledge (or stereotypes, rather) were Aeschylus' Persae, Herodotus, and Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Anabasis, and Hellenica (of course he cannot really provide any supporting evidence for his view, though this must not at all mean that his view is unlikely).
Hartkamp believes that all scenes where Dordalus acts rather stupid are either Plautine inventions, or at least extended by Plautus in that direction.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-04-23.html

  
 [WikiEN-l] All sensible people v. Plautus satire exhibit 2
I dont know what Plautus has been up to, but its obvious he is not the only one who edits talk pages.
Is it just me, or are these people scrambling very hard to find "the goods" on me? I submit if it's this difficult, it's not worth pursuing, time would be better spent finding a compromise.
I will check every edit you make and revert them when I see moving other people's comments around.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-February/011133.html

  
 Starks
Plautus does not avoid ethnic jokes in salvaging Hanno, but he places them where they will heighten laughs and plot development.
Hanno is ridiculed, but not to his detriment as heroic deliverer.
Plautus has used another stock character who deserves his "come-uppance" after delivering unfounded ethnic aspersions.
http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/99mtg/abstracts/Starks.html

  
 Plautus's Life: A Short History
Plautus then became a moneylender to those involved in foreign trade.
Much of what modern historians have written of Plautus is inferred from these small clippings which survive to us today.
As Plautus was too old to fall back into his role of actor, he decided to try his hand at writing.
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~jolott/old_courses/republic1998/plautus/plautuslife.html

  
 Zagagi 1980 Tradition and Originality in Plautus
Literary evidence outside Attic Comedy (18-26) Frankel was too narrow in his search for parallels to Plautus’ opening monologues comparisons.
Another classicist, Tierney, found evidence against Frankel’s view in Alexis, Pyraunos, but it was not strong enough.
Plautus and Terence began to often use opposites to describe his state.
http://home.att.net/~c.c.major/pla/zagagi1980.html

  
 414 Roman Comedy I (Plautus), Classical Drama and Theatre
Far from a poor "niche" for theatre, when seen this way, the Roman world of Plautus' day had everything going for it.
But unlike a Rodgers and Hammerstein, if Plautus' and Menander's lives had not been separated by a century, it seems improbable they would ever have collaborated!
This question has long been a matter of speculation, because the loss of almost all Greek New Comedy has left theatre historians with no Greek originals by which to make comparison.
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/141plautus.htm

  
 Resume of Michael Gilleland
"Plautus, Stichus 617", American Journal of Philology 98 (1977) 355
http://www.merriampark.com/mgresume.htm

  
 Pseudolus
Plautus uses Pseudolus as a means of creating a comic hero whose worth is not based on his status and class in society.
Instead his worth is based on his ruthless cunning and his kindness to those he helps.
Plautus was attempting to show his audience that human worth is not based merely on wealth and social position, but on decent human qualities that transcend what society dictates as making a human powerful and great.
http://people.cornellcollege.edu/j-gentes/comedy/pseudolus.htm

  
 Plautus - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
Somehow Plautus saved enough capital to go into business as a merchant shipper, but this venture collapsed, and he worked (says the tradition) as a miller’s laborer, and in his spare time studied Greek drama.
Titus Maccius Plautus was born in Sarsina, Umbria, in about 254 BC, and was originally named, after his father, Titus.
Little is known of his life, but it is believed that he went to Rome when young and worked as a stage assistant.
http://www.penguinputnam.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000025245,00.html?sym=BIO

  
 Titus Maccius Plautus
Not much of all this can be found in Plautus' plays, even in 'Poenulus' (The Carthaginian) where it could have been very easy to demonstrate the hatred against Carthage.
In later times 130 plays were referred to as written by Plautus, but an important scholar, Marcus Terentius Varro, said that only 21 of them were actually written by Plautus.
Collection of links by Looksmart, containing various information about Plautus and his work.
http://home.tiscali.be/mauk.haemers/collegium_artium/plautus.htm

  
 RomanComedy
Despite these losses, Plautus has turned out to be incredibly popular through the ages.
Plautus and Petronius are still our best glimpse of the little people of the Roman world, how they thought and some of the things that they were liable to say.
His name, taken from that of his master, Public Terentius Afer, has been thought to refer to African and possibly black origins, but nothing conclusive can be said.
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinAuthors/RomanComedy.html

  
 Foils
Rather than getting caught up in any conspiracy, gossip or other petty matter beneath a man of his bearing, Plautus simply goes.
Plautus was one of the few men who Nero feared but did not kill.
Plautus was by the account of Tacitus, an excellent man. “His personal tastes were old-fashioned, his bearing austere, and his life respectable and secluded” (324).
http://students.vassar.edu/datomczik/plautus.html

  
 The Writings of Plautus
This page, which will fill you in with some of his life and perhaps events at the time (if I find them).
Plautus wrote many plays, 20 of which were preserved nearly whole.
A page on motifs in Plautus' works, that also will help you know what to expect in his writings and what he satirizes in turn.
http://students.ou.edu/A/Rachel.L.Renneckar-1

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.09.17
In general, a more critical examination of the grounds for the current trend to deny the existence of a fourth-century exemplar would be helpful.
While this approach has the virtue of consistency -- of allowing Plautus to be Plautus, as it were -- it leaves certain questions unresolved.
2) of identification between Plautus the ex-slave/actor and the cunning, self-assertive slaves in which his comedies abound.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-09-17.html

  
 Plautus on Encyclopedia.com
Nullus Me Est Hodie Poenus Poenior: Balanced Ethnic Humor in Plautus' Poenulus.(Critical Essay)
The chronological order for Plautus' plays is unknown; 21, more or less complete, survive: 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).
Violence and the Performance of Class in Plautus' Casina.(Critical Essay)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/p/plautus.asp

  
 Writings and Career of Plautus
The popularity of Plautus was greatest in his own time and in the generation that followed him; but his plays continued to be acted until the age of Cicero, by whom, as also by Varro, he was greatly admired.
There is about his plays a flavor of the sea and a spirit of adventure, with the frequent use of Greek phrases and indications of his acquaintance with the sights and pleasures of the Greek cities on the Mediterranean.
The Amphitryo, for instance, has been imitated by Molière and Dryden, and the Aulularia suggested to the former the subject of his Miser, while the principal motive in The Comedy of Errors is taken from the Menæchmi.
http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/plautus001.html

  
 Plautus, Terence, and Cicero by Sanderson Beck
Plautus said this was his favorite play; he changed the Greek plot to prevent a brother from marrying his half-sister, since the Romans considered this incest, though it did not bother the Greeks.
Callicles explains to his friend the Stoic idea that he is only responsible for what is within his own control - his actions, not what other people think of them.
The Menaechmi by Plautus is a comedy of errors, as Shakespeare called his adaptation, and as it refers to Hiero ruling in Syracuse, it may have been produced before his death in 215 BC.
http://www.san.beck.org/EC26-Cicero.html

  
 The Millennium Library: Who's Who - Plautus
The use of Greek-based plays also allowed Plautus to escape censorship, because his mocking of authority was seen as criticism of the Athenian world rather than the Roman.
Plautus, however, created his plays in his own unique style to suit the tastes of his Roman audiences, designing them with ingenious trickery and bawdy repartee.
His most popular works are the 'Bacchides', 'The Pot of Gold', 'The Brothers Menaechmus,' 'The Prisoners', and a version of the popular Greek myth of Amphitryon.
http://www.millenniumlibrary.co.uk/millib/reference/notes.php?entry=Plautus&fromdb=2

  
 Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 - c. 184 B.C.)
Soon, however, his comedies began to suit the public taste and Plautus was able to retire his hand-mill and devote himself to writing full-time.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Plautus plays were no mere translation of Menander.
Plautus' works have been adapted by many later playwrights.
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc21.html

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Plautus: The Comedies
His dramatic works were his way of describing and portraying that world in a language the people understood.
Plautus was not "literary" but rather an energetic and resourceful man of the world who spoke the language of the people.
Whether authentic or not, these few details about the playwright's life are consistent with the image of him one might infer from his plays.
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/080185072X

  
 Plautus --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Plautus, like them, took the bulk of his plots, if not all of them, from plays written by Greek authors of the late...
Influenced by the textual criticism of the English and German classicists Richard Bentley and Gottfried Hermann, he made exhaustive studies that laid the scholarly foundations for research in archaic Latin.
Excerpts from primary texts of Plautus and Petronius, pertaining to the social life of ordinary people during ancient Roman times.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-5776?tocId=5776

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.05.03
The central questions of the book are: "how did Plautus mold and manipulate the relationship between his actors and their audience, and to what ends?" (4).
Cleostrata may start out as a shrew, but she and her allies gradually gain a greater rapport with the audience while Lysidamus and his allies fare badly in their attempts to plan a ruse, eavesdrop, and deliver private monologues.
While one might wish Moore had advised the reader with a few comments on the strengths and weaknesses of other studies, one should appreciate his detached professionalism; that is, Moore's notes are refreshingly free from fawning praise of those with whom he agrees and petulant sniping at those with whom he does not.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1999/1999-05-03.html

  
 Plautus
Plautus, who wrote in the last part of the third century and the first part of the second century B.C., was the most popular of all Roman comic writers.
Plautus did not create original plots; but though his plays are adapted from Greek comedies, he made them thoroughly Roman by using colloquial language, local allusions, vulgarity, alliteration, comic word play, and parody, especially parody of the Roman legal and military system.
When he began writing his own plays, Plautus took his familiarity with song, dance, and native Italian farce and combined it with characters and plots from the New Comedy of Hellenistic Greece.
http://www.ripon.edu/Faculty/Amsdenr/THE231/RomanTheatreFolder/Plautus.html

  
 Harvard University Press/Plautus, Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives
Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BC at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.
To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres.
So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300–250 BC transferred to the Roman stage of about 225–185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L060.html

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Plautus
The works of 2nd-century-bc Roman dramatist Plautus were highly successful in his time, and influenced many later comic playwrights, such as the...
Plautus, full name Titus Maccius Plautus (254?-184 bc), Roman comic dramatist, who enjoyed immense popularity among the Romans and greatly...
http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Plautus.html

  
 Plautus - Dark Humor and Dramatic Irony
It is also true that the asides of Plautus have a more outwardly "funny" effect: in most cases, they will bring forth a bellowing laugh from the reader, and in some cases, they even lean toward a slapstick-like effect.
This may in itself seem normal, but once again it presents a darker view of the situation: instead of revealing to the audience their innermost thoughts, these figures express their thoughts only to themselves or each other, keeping the secret intact: a far more psychologically motivated humor is thus established.
The asides in Plautus' comedies, however, take on a very different character from those of Aristophanes.
http://www.nthuleen.com/papers/C14paper2.html

  
 romandramabib
Earl, D. "Political Terminology in Plautus," Historia 9 (1960) 235-243.
The extreme opposite of Lefèvre et al.; argues that Plautus stayed very close to his originals, and much of what looks "unGreek" (sometimes over 1/3 of a given play) is later interpolation by actors.
Good way to start considering the controversies about how Plautus and Terence changed their Greek originals.
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~tjmoore/romandramabib.html

  
 Plautus, Titus Maccius
Many of his plays are based on Greek originals by playwrights such as Menander, to which Plautus added his own brand of native wit and sharp character-drawing.
He had a perfect command of language and metre, and enjoyed unrivalled popularity in his day; since the Renaissance he has been acknowledged as one of the greatest of ancient playwrights.
Twenty-one comedies survive in his name; 35 other titles are known.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0012854.html

  
 So...you like Plautus? Try Truculentus!
He based his comedies on the Greek New Comedy of the fourth and third century B.C.E. His plays were popular events at Roman festivals and offered the cynical entertainment that the Roman audience craved.
Plautus shows that through the seduction and careful plotting of the clever courtesan, she is able to victimize every gullible customer who enters her house.
The plays of Titus Maccius Plautus were set in Greece with a cast a Grecian characters, although they were performed in Latin were obviously biased.
http://www.loyno.edu/~aecejudo/plautus.html

  
 Plautus
The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 and 184 BCE.
Plautus' work gave ideas to many playwrights afterwards, such as William Shakespeare, Molière, Lessing and others.
The characters remain in Greek settings, or perhaps a Greek setting imagined by a Roman.
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/P/Plautus.htm

  
 Plautus (c. 254-184 B.C.)
Plautus, like Terence, draws only on recognised types of the later Athenian comedy--the stern or indulgent father, the spendthrift son, the clever and faithful slave, and the shameless parasite--who were all classified and fitted with a characteristic mask.
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.
Considering these limits, the genius of Plautus for developing amusing situations and lively dialogue is very great and has been appreciated--in adaptations and imitations--by Shakespeare, Molière, Fielding, and many other dramatists.
http://www.usefultrivia.com/biographies/plautus_001.html

  
 Plautus Mostellaria
(p.83), Plautus has a character claim that the plot of this play is an improvement over the work of Diphilus, Philemon, and other (Greek) comic writers.
Plautus' comedies, like those of the famous Greek Menander before him, usually included a prologue in which a character would introduce the audience to the main characters, to the plot's background, and sometimes even to its conclusion (
As the name suggests, all of these plays, if not adapted more or less creatively from Greek originals, at least follow in the tradition of GREEK NEW COMEDY, which was already more than a century old.
http://www.cofc.edu/~fennoj/RomCiv/Plaut.htm

  
 Plautus: Amphitruo - Cambridge University Press
Plautus’ Amphitruo is the sole specimen of mythological burlesque in ancient comedy to come down to us in nearly complete form.
Plautus’ metres are explained in a manner students will find helpful and instructive.
Included in the Introduction is an account of the mythic and dramatic background to Plautus’ play as well as of its influence in post-classical drama.
http://books.cambridge.org/0521454018.htm

  
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 Titus Maccius Plautus
Tell the world what you think of Titus Maccius Plautus.
http://www.tv.com/titus-maccius-plautus/person/224283/summary.html

  
 Menander (342 B.C. - 291 B.C.)
At some point, however, his manuscripts were lost or destroyed, and what we now know of the poet is based primarily on ancient reports, a few manuscripts which have been recovered in the last hundred years, and adaptations by the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence.
And he won his first victory with a play entitled Anger in 316 B.C. Menander's plays held a place in the standard literature of western Europe for over 800 years.
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc14.htm

  
 Drama: Plautus
His middle name is Maccius (a form of Maccus, the clown of the farces), possibly alluding to the role he had habitually played.
Plautus (254-184 B.C.) is among Rome's most famous playwrights and may have been a member of a troupe that performed Atellan comedy.
All surviving Roman comedy shows the influence of Greek originals.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/LITLINKS/drama/plautus.htm

  
 Electronic Antiquity (Dec. 1995): TRANSLATING PLAUTUS: A REVIEW
The changes Plautus has made, (suppressing a sober exchange between father and son in favour of expanding the personal comment in the son's soliloquy and dialogue with his supposedly disloyal friend), have been discussed by Handley ("Menander and Plautus: A Study in Comparison" London 1968) Sandbach (o.c.
Wind understands and conveys the difference between the world of Plautus and of his Greek models, and his translations are lively libretti adapted to performance.
There is no paratragic diction or versification in Plautus' monologue.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/awiesner/ea/fantham.html

  
 plautus
Segal, Scholarship on Plautus, 1965-1976, in : The Classical World 74 (1980-1981), pp.
J.A. Hanson, Scholarship on Plautus, in : The Classical World 59 (1965-1966), pp.
Moore, The theater of Plautus : playing to the audience, Austin, TX 1998.
http://www.let.kun.nl/%7Em.v.d.poel/bibliografie/plautus.htm

  
 John Gruber-Miller, Staging Plautus' Curculio
In other words, Plautus invites those who produce the play to make explicit the connection between the imaginary world on stage and the real world of our lives.
Recast the play in such a way that it stresses the similarity of situation between the ancient world and our world.
First, where in Curculio, besides the Choragus' speech, does Plautus encourage us to break down the differences between the audience and the imaginary world on stage?
http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/abstracts/grubermiller.html

  
 John Starks, Jr. - New Directions for Plautus
Starks will be presenting the results of their collaboration.
N.B. Matthew Panciera, who is a co-developer of this project, has taken a position with the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and will not be able to attend the conference.
I will also provide the edited text and director's notes from our video's instructional book, Latin Laughs: A Production of Plautus' Poenulus, soon to be published by Bolchazy-Carducci.
http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/abstracts/pancierastarks.html

  
 Plautus
Another important goal is to understand the society that created Plautus, the society that Plautus mocked, and the society that laughed at his humor.
As part of this enterprise, you will also achieve some facility with Plautus' typical meters, the Iambic Senarii and Trochaic Septenarius
Of no less importance than these interpretive goals is one of performance: you will read Plautus aloud, memorize the Latin, make it funny, and amuse your classmates and your instructor.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/pythian/courses/plautus

  
 Seekmeup.Directory - Arts: Literature: Drama: Ancient Roman: Plautus, Titus Maccius
Plautus - A biography of the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus; includes a list of related links.
184 B.C.) - Biography of Roman playwright Plautus, plus links to all of his works currently in print.
Writings and Career of Plautus - Biography of the Roman dramatist Titus Maccius Plautus and analysis of his poetic qualities.
http://seekmeup.com/directory/Arts/Literature/Drama/Ancient_Roman/Plautus,_Titus_Maccius

  
 [WikiEN-l] A compromise proposal for the Plautus issue
Previous message: [WikiEN-l] A compromise proposal for the Plautus issue
This is the crucial difference between Vigilantism and Due Process which is essential to preventing a slip into tyranny that folks like the Cunctator are always warning us about.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-February/011054.html

  
 Study Questions- Plautus
Describe one of the examples in detail as you assess Plautus' motives.
Why do you think Plautus uses this technique?
Describe how Plautus develops the character of Ballio in Act I, Scenes 2-3.
http://www.wou.edu/~hardinc/studyquestions/sq_plautus.htm

  
 Plautus' Casina
Plautus’ inspiration was Diphilus’ comedy Kleroumenoi (Lot-Drawers); Plautus probably likewise entitled his version Sortientes (Lot-Drawers).
139 of Tatum’s translation) and before 184 B.C. (Plautus’ death).
The title Casina may have been given at the time of the later revival (see Prologue, p.
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/course/casina.html

  
 Plautus Plautus Books and Creations for Sale
This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp to the more subversive The Prisoners which raises serious questions about the role of slavery.
One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world Plautus (c.254-184 BC) skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day.
Throughout Plautus breathes new brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins scheming slaves bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values.
http://www.mindbodyspirit.com.au/auth/p/plautus.htm

  
 Powell's Books - Plautus: Amphitruo (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Titus Maccius Plautus
Central to Dr. Gratwick's treatment is an analysis of the various meters employed by Plautus, which challenges many conventional views but also offers the student practical assistance with the technical problems involved.
This title is an edition with introduction and line-by-line commentary of the Roman playwright Plautus' comedy "Amphitruo".
In this edition Dr. Gratwick provides a newly constituted text, a commentary for students giving help with language and context, and an introduction that sheds new light on the interpretation of the play and on Plautus' place in the development of European comedy.
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0521459974

  
 CLAS 102.01 Roman Lit.: Plautus
Heautontimoroumenos 77 I am a man: I think nothing human is alien to me.
(Essay question 1.C) and one of the topics of the Plautus paper is about her.
Read those questions and take notes when you watch the film!!
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/pythian/courses/roman/plautus.html

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