Plautus: Mostellaria

Name: Plautus: Mostellaria
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ISBN: 9781853996382

ISBN-10: 1853996386

ISBN-13: 9781853996382

Edition: N/A

Authors: Plautus, F. R. Merrill

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"The Mostellaria (often called in English The Haunted House) is one of Plautus' most lively plays and one which contains his most skilfully handled elements of farce. The two slaves Tranio and Grumio are exquisitely drawn and lent their names to the servants in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. The plot concerns Tranio's attempts to disguise from his elderly master Theopropides the sexual and financial prodigality of his son Philolaches, who is in love with the beautiful but unsuitable Philematium. Theopropides returns from a journey abroad and, in order to prevent him catching his son in flagrante delicto, Tranio invents an unlikely tale that the house is haunted. The complexities and…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 7/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Mason Hammond is Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus, Harvard University.