Plautus, Volume 3: The Comedies: v. 3 (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) 1st edition hardback in very good dust jacket

David Slavitt editor

ISBN 10: 0801850673 / ISBN 13: 9780801850677

Edité par John Hopkins University Press, 1995

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Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1995, here is the first hardback printing of Plautus: The Comedies Volume 3 edited by David Slavitt. Maroon cloth covered boards, quarter black cloth binding, pink spine lettering, 400 pages, the book is in very good plus condition with the the name of a previous owner inked to the front free end paper. The book is heavy and therefore additional postage MUST be applied to areas OUTSIDE the UK as follows: Europe/ Rest of the World £6. UK postage is as quoted.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Plautus, Volume 3: The Comedies: v. 3 (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) 1st edition hardback in very good dust jacket
• Éditeur: John Hopkins University Press
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801850673
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801850677
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Part of a four-volume set containing all twenty-one surviving comedies of perhaps one of Western literature's greatest dramatists, this text brings together five translations. Born in Sarsina, Umbria, in 254 B.C., Plautus is said to have worked in Rome as a stage carpenter and later as a miller's helper. 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. Plautus was not "literary" but rather an energetic and resourceful man of the world who spoke the language of the people. His dramatic works were his way of describing and portraying that world in a language the people understood. Since Plautus's career unfolded against the background of the Second Punic War, it is not surprising that his prologues often end with a wish for the audience's "good luck against your enemies" or that the plays have their share of arrogant generals, boastful military captains, and mercenary adventurers. But other unforgettable characters are here as well - among them Euclio, in the Aulularia, the model for Moliere's miser. These translations aim to communicate the vitality and verve of the originals.

À propos des auteurs

David R. Slavitt is a poet, translator, novelist, critic, and journalist. He is author of more than seventy works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation.

Palmer Bovie has published many translations of classical Roman literature, including The Georgics of Virgil, The Satires and Epistles of Horace, Cicero: Nine Orations, Epigrams of Martial, De Rerum Natura of Lucretius, and Terence: The Comedies.