The Rope And Other Plays

Author : Plautus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937912
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rope and Other Plays written by Plautus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molière and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is thrown into disarray when he returns from abroad, a theme that is explored further in the comedy of errors A Three-Dollar Day. In The Rope - regarded by many as the best of Plautus' plays - the shipwreck of a pimp and his slaves leads to the touching reunion of a father and his daughter, while Amphitryo, Plautus's only excursion into divine mythology, offers a cheerful account of how Jupiter became father to Hercules.

Author : Plautus
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140441360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rope and Other Plays written by Plautus and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1964-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molière and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is thrown into disarray when he returns from abroad, a theme that is explored further in the comedy of errors A Three-Dollar Day. In The Rope—regarded by many as the best of Plautus' plays—the shipwreck of a pimp and his slaves leads to the touching reunion of a father and his daughter, while Amphitryo, Plautus's only excursion into divine mythology, offers a cheerful account of how Jupiter became father to Hercules. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Titus Maccius (c. 254-184 BC) Plautus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book The Rope and Other Plays written by Titus Maccius (c. 254-184 BC) Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Titus Maccius (c. 254-184 BC) Plautus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rope and Other Plays written by Titus Maccius (c. 254-184 BC) Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393006025
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Menaechmus Twins, and Two Other Plays written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers is the story of two twin brothers, Menaechmus and Sosicles, who are separated at age seven when their father takes Menaechmus on a business trip.

Author : N. H. Twitchell
Publisher : Arena books
ISBN 13 : 1906791988
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Rope written by N. H. Twitchell and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating broad-based political and cultural study presents the definitive account of the campaign to abolish capital punishment in the period 1955-69. It comprises a work of contemporary history exploring the theme from a number of angles, both pro and contra, which have not been covered so extensively before. From the sphere of governmental and parliamentary politics, to the relevant pressure groups, to the role of the mass media, to the significance of the different churches, and the influence of professional bodies, such as those representing the police and prison officers, the book skilfully identifies their interaction with one another. It examines the effect on the campaign of fluctuations in public opinion, and of controversial murder cases such as those of Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty, which in turn often informed the state of public opinion The work sets the campaign in the context of the social and cultural ferment of the era (the advent of the permissive society), and contrasts the fortunes of the movement with those of other "conscience issues," such as the legalisation of abortion, homosexual law reform, divorce liberalisation and the abolition of theatre censorship. It seeks to account for the success of the campaign within a relatively short time span in the face of intense public antipathy and a concerted effort by various elements of the establishment to thwart its fulfilment. It asks why the campaign succeeded when so many others facing lesser institutional obstacles failed, and it asks why it succeeded when it did and in the way it did, and considers whether the success of the campaign can be accounted for by the Zeitgeist. On one level it is a study of the politics of social reform, but at a deeper level it is a study of the way in which social trends feed through into political action at the parliamentary level, and illustrates the process of policy formation in the area of private members legislation and free votes where "party" has voluntarily taken a back seat.

Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 161451125X
Total Pages : 1097 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Comedy and Reception written by S. Douglas Olson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as toall those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.

Author : Lina Beard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Ideas for Work and Play written by Lina Beard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415462231
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre Histories written by Phillip B. Zarrilli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One-act Plays in English, 1900-1920 written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: