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Titus Maccius Plautus [1] ( / ˈplɔːtəs /, PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature.
Jan 4, 2016 · Titus Maccius Plautus, better known simply as Plautus (actually a nickname meaning 'flatfoot'), was, between c. 205 and 184 BCE, a Roman writer of comedy plays, specifically the fabulae palliatae, which had a Greek-themed storyline.
Plautus was a great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language. Little is known for certain about the life and personality of Plautus, who ranks with Terence as one of the two great Roman comic dramatists.
May 11, 2018 · Plautus. Plautus (ca. 254-ca. 184 B.C.) was a Roman writer. His theatrical genius, vitality, farcical humor, and control of the Latin language rank him as Rome's greatest comic playwright. During the 3d century B.C., Roman writers began to imitate the forms and contents of Greek literature.
Jul 19, 2024 · Quick Reference. Comic playwright, author of fabulae palliatae (see fabula) between c. 205 and 184 bc; plays by Plautus are the earliest Latin works to have survived complete. Varro drew up a list of 21 plays which were generally agreed to be by Plautus, and doubtless they are the 21 transmitted in our manuscripts.
Plautus , (born c. 254, Sarsina, Umbria?—died 184 bc), Roman comic playwright. Little is known for certain about his life, but tradition holds that he was associated with the theatre from an early age.
Plautus took the rather urbane and decorous Greek comedies and injected them with a great deal of vitality, comic fun, and vulgarity. Their generally high-minded and thoughtful characters are in his hands more vigourously drawn and cynically motivated.
The introduction itself covers (i) a general introduction, (ii) Plautus’ Life, (iii) Plautus’ Greek Sources, (iv) Themes and Characteristics of Plautine Comedy, (v) Plautus and Native Italian Traditions, (vi) Plautine language, (vi) Plautine verse, (vii) Staging, (viii) Text of Plautus, and (ix) Plautus’ Influence on European Drama ...
These critics were reluctant to credit Plautus with much skill or creativity and often suggested, when confronted with great divergence between Plautus's plays and Greek models, that...
Aug 26, 2011 · Plautus was a very successful dramatist (Parker 1996). For brief introductions, see Chiarini 2004 and Wright 1982 as well as the general books on Roman comedy listed in the Oxford Bibliographies Online article Latin Drama .
