Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolus: Four Plays (The Foucus Classical Library) - Softcover

Plautus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585101559 ISBN 13: 9781585101559

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2008

Synopsis

This anthology contains English translations of four plays by one of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus. The plays Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi and Pseudolus provide an introduction to the world of Roman comedy. As with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on a handsomely produced, inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.

About this title

Product Description:

Rare book

Review:

Christenson has offered readers a useful and informative edition of four Plautine plays in neutral, accessible English that, unlike some recent Plautus translations, reaches out to a wide modern audience, both classicist and general, both in Anglophone countries and elsewhere in the world. Within the range of Plautus translations as currently available, this is certainly a most welcome contribution. Christenson's thematical focus on some of Plautus' more serious plays, in which he seems almost like a social critic, is interesting and provides food for thought.

- Vincent Hunink, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.07.03

About this edition

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1585101559
• ISBN 13: 9781585101559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272