upcoming book chat: plautus’ comedies

On February 21, we will discuss the comedies by Titus Macchius Plautus.

A sampling of print editions:

Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe
Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics)
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
There is also the upcoming book Classical Comedy.

A good background read is
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
(Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Online, we have Gutenberg:

Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives (Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi)

and Perseus:

(Search Perseus for Plautus)
Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain
Menaechmi

Book Chat   2007 Reading list

More on Plautus to come.

         

Comments

[bingley]

Shakespearians might be interested in this edition of The Comedy of Errors, which also contains a modern-spelling version of William Warner's Elizabethan translation of The Menaechmi.