Plautus and Pseudolus

from The Roman World · host Dr Rhiannon Evans

Comic plays are the earliest complete literary texts we have from Rome, and the comedies of the mid-Republican poet Plautus have been enormously influential on European drama. In this lecture we look at what Plautus takes from Greek New Comedy, what is especially Roman about his plays, and how he plays with convention in the Pseudolus. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

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