Book · 200 BC · Fiction

Four Comedies

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.

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200 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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