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Plautus: The Comedies by David R. Slavitt 9780801850738
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators for the final two... -
Captivi: 2-volume set by Plautus 9780929524504
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524504Author PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn... -
Plautus: Casina by Professor David Christenson 9781350020535
Booksplease Price: £28.09This is the first volume dedicated to Plautus' perennially popular comedy Casina that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin. It launches a much-needed new series... -
Plautus: Casina by Professor David Christenson 9781350020542
Booksplease Price: £75.81This is the first volume dedicated to Plautus' perennially popular comedy Casina that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin. It launches a much-needed new series... -
Plautus: Cistellaria Professor Ariana Traill 9781350241787
Booksplease Price: £70.89This volume is the first book-length introduction to Plautus' Cistellaria (The Jewelry Box), offering an incisive overview for both students and scholars coming to it for the first time. This play is... -
Plautus: Mostellaria by Professor George Fredric Franko 9781350205383
Booksplease Price: £25.62Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome's most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio... -
Studies in the Word-Play of Plautus by Charles Mendelson 9780359070596
RRP: £9.44Booksplease Price: £8.98From the INTRODUCTION. Word-play has long been recognized as one of Plautus' principal methods for arousing laughter, and every commentator has been at more or less pains to point out the passages in... -
Plautus: Menaechmi by Dr V. Sophie Klein 9781350092730
Booksplease Price: £65.97This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus' most whimsical, provocative, and influential plays for the first time, and a... -
Language and Rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies by Benjamin Fortson 9783110205930
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £106.94The plays of Plautus have long been recognized as a unique mine of information about the spoken Latin of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. But detailed and up-to-date linguistic treatments of the... -
The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké 9780371671399
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371671399Author Wilton Wallace BlanckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind by Niall W. Slater
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £90.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057550379Author Niall W. SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing... -
Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus by Erich Segal 9780195041668
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £28.08'We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.' Phoenix This reissue of virtually the only book in English devoted to the work of the Roman comedy writer Plautus... -
Plautus: Mostellaria by Professor George Fredric Franko 9781350188419
Booksplease Price: £80.73Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome's most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio... -
Plautus: Curculio by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 9781350079748
Booksplease Price: £86.43This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp... -
The Mostellaria of Plautus by William Ramsay George G Ramsay 9783846053638
RRP: £69.90Booksplease Price: £62.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783846053638Author William Ramsay George G RamsayFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint... -
Plautus' Poenulus: A Student Commentary by Erin K. Moodie 9780472119707
Booksplease Price: £70.59Erin K. Moodie presents a rigorous yet accessible guide to Plautus' satirical play Poenulus for use in the contemporary classroom. Likely written and staged in the years following the Second Punic... -
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence by Mathias Hanses
Booksplease Price: £71.55The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial... -
Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence by Erich Segal 9780198721925
Booksplease Price: £83.98This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. Earlier authors like... -
Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy by Richard F. Hardin 9781683931300
Booksplease Price: £41.36The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus's lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy... -
Letters in Plautus: Writing Between the Lines by Emilia A. Barbiero 9781009168519
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63The letters in Plautus are potent tools for making and thinking about Plautine comedy inside Plautine comedy. Emilia Barbiero demonstrates that Plautus' embedded letters reify the internal... -
Plautus: Curculio by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 9781350214330
Booksplease Price: £26.90This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character ("The Weevil") bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp... -
Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence by Erich Segal 9780198721932
Booksplease Price: £59.70This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. Earlier authors like... -
The Mostellaria of Plautus by William Ramsay George G Ramsay 9783846053621
RRP: £49.90Booksplease Price: £44.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783846053621Author William Ramsay George G RamsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint... -
The Merchant, The Braggart Soldier, The Ghost, The Persian by Titus Maccius Plautus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of... -
Plautus' Poenulus: A Student Commentary by Erin K. Moodie 9780472036424
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £22.39Erin K. Moodie presents a rigorous yet accessible guide to Plautus' satirical play Poenulus for use in the contemporary classroom. Likely written and staged in the years following the Second Punic... -
Amphitryon & Two Other Plays by Titus Maccius Plautus 9780393006018
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.72This anthology includes his best plays and also seeks to give some idea of his range. His forte was farce, and these selections exemplify at least two of his favorite farcical devices: mistaken... -
Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy by Richard F. Hardin 9781683931287
Booksplease Price: £85.65The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus's lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy... -
Letters in Plautus: Writing Between the Lines Emilia A. Barbiero 9781009168526
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14The letters in Plautus are potent tools for making and thinking about Plautine comedy inside Plautine comedy. Emilia Barbiero demonstrates that Plautus' embedded letters reify the internal... -
The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience by Timothy J. Moore 9780292752177
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept at manipulating this relationship... -
Plautus and Terence, Issue 4 by William Lucas Collins 9780461710717
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461710717Author William Lucas CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Plautus: Epidicus T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 9781350416222
Booksplease Price: £70.89Plautus' comedy Epidicus has the most convoluted, complicated and recursive plot in all known ancient Greek and Roman literature - despite being shorter than all but two other plays that survive in... -
Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies by Lawrence Echard 9781479411573
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479411573Author Lawrence EchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wildside PressPublisher... -
Relative Clauses in Ten Plays of Plautus by Patti Sankee 9781249282389
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781249282389Author Patti SankeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint BiblioscholarPublisher... -
A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 9780472077069
Booksplease Price: £63.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472077069Author T. H. M. Gellar-GoadFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint The University of... -
Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius by Eleanor Dickey 9780199239054
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.47How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one Roman called another 'dearest', 'master', 'brother', 'human being', 'executioner', or 'soft little... -
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius by Elaine Fantham 9781421408354
Booksplease Price: £69.34Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture,... -
A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 9780472057061
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472057061Author T. H. M. Gellar-GoadFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint The University of... -
The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope: Volume IV by Titus Maccius Plautus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of... -
Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy by William S. Anderson 9780802079411
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second... -
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius by Elaine Fantham 9781421408361
Booksplease Price: £33.92Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture,...