Four Comedies

Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare''s Comedy of Errors and Molière''s The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humour, and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an undisputed genius. The comedies printed here show him at his best, a...