Book · 200 BC · Fiction

Four Comedies

Name: Four Comedies
Author: Plautus

Oxford University Press · 242 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Plautus stole Greek plots and made them Roman, vulgar and fast. Shakespeare lifted his mistaken twins for The Comedy of Errors, Moliere lifted his miser, and farce has run on that machinery since.

Genre

Comedy

Medium

Play

Subject

Mistaken Identity Deception Romance Class

Setting

Rome

Time

200 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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