However, not too much should be made of such a fleeting reference. Roman comedy is represented by two latin playwrights, plautus writing between c. This first volume of a new loeb edition of all 21 of plautus s extant comedies presents amphitruo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, and captivi with freshly edited texts, lively modern translations, and ample explanatory notes. Amphitryon or amphitruo is a latin play for the early roman theatre by playwright titus maccius plautus. In their responses to this temporal anomaly, sosia, amphitruo, and alcumena. This sex farce delighted roman audiences and readers for centuries and continues to inspire adaptations to this day. Varros bimarcus and encounters with the self in plautus s epidicus and amphitruo t. Plautus amphitruo is the sole specimen of mythological burlesque in ancient comedy to come down to us in nearly complete form. Plautus really does blur the two genres together in this text, and we have tragic figures and scenarios arising amidst an awfully farcical tragedy. Puns and word play in plautus university of arizona. Download plautus the comedies read online video dailymotion. Little is known of the life of titus maccius plautus. Amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi amphitryon, the comedy of asses, the pot.
This play, which unfortunately remains unnamed, was performed the year before the amphitruo, and jupiter played a part in it. As with all focus translations, the emphasis is on an inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices. Ebooks by titus maccius plautus online reading and free download. Theantelogiumin plautusamphitruo aschoeman university ofthewesterncape in the early nineteenth century in england an actor by the name of robert coatesl is said to have become so popular on account of his bad acting that people flocked from. It is the first and only use of the word tragicomedy in classical latin, and it is not just a pun as it first appears. An xml version of this text is available for download, with the additional.
We have from him one mythological burlesque, the amphitruo, and several plays dealing with domestic subjects like the captivi, cistellaria, rudens, stichus and t rinummus. Download product flyer is to download pdf in new tab. This performance of plautus amphitruo is the product of my ancient drama and performance class at byu classical civ 340 r. Amphitryon, a theban, joins the army of thebes to fight against the teloboans. The original of the amphitruo is not now thought to have been a work of the. Plautus s amphitruo, captivi, and rudens 207 walter stockert. Moores innovative study of the comedies of plautus. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. A play on mutuus amor at plautus amphitruo 542 and terence. Plautus plays are without exception new comedy palliatae, i. The works of other playwrights such as livius andronicus, naevius and ennius are now lost except for a few lines quoted in other authors. The subject creon, king of thebes, being at war with the teleboans or taphians, under the command of ptereias, sends an army against them. If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file here. Publication date 1842 publisher philadelphia, perkins collection robarts.
The theater of plautus playing to the audience by timothy. Plautus does not, however, use the term in the sense which we apply to it. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Maccius plautus, amphitryon, or jupiter in disguise, act 1, scene. When he leaves for the wars, his wife alcmena, daughter of electryon, is pregnant. The first part of the book examines plautus techniques in detail, while the second part explores how he used them in the plays pseudolus, amphitruo, curculio, truculentus, casina, and captivi.
Accompanying the plays is a detailed introduction to plautus s. The current scholarly communis opinio holds that the referent of the title of varros bimarcus and the menippean satires two speakers are not as previously believed. Amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi by titus maccius plautus. In faciem uersus amphitruonis iuppiter, dum bellum gereret cum telobois hostibus, alcmenam uxorem cepit usurariam. Jupiter takes the human form of amphitryon to enjoy sleeping with the mortals wife and. Amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi amphitryon, the comedy of asses, the pot of gold. The date of the plautine adaptation of this play, as in the case of the asinaria. This is commanded by amphitryon, who leaves his wife alcmena pregnant at his departure from thebes.
During his absence from home, jupiter, assuming his form, and mercury that of his servant sosia, present themselves to alcmena, as though just returned from. Plautus amphitruo personae in latin, with adjustable. Plautus amphitruo cambridge greek and latin classics book. I mispoke, for what i meant to say was that im amphitruo s friend.
These metatheatrical techniques are the focus of timothy j. Amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi by titus maccius. Welcome as a full autobiography of plautus would be, in place of such scant. An edition with introduction and linebyline commentary of the roman playwright plautus. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. His plays are the earliest complete surviving works from latin theatre and they are noted for adding even more outrageous comedy to traditional comic plays. Amphitruo cambridge greek and latin classics by plautus 2000 paperback plautus on. This work is licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 3.
Time, plot, and characterization in plautuss amphitruo. Project muse varros bimarcus and encounters with the. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system. Titus maccius plautus, better known simply as plautus actually a nickname meaning flatfoot, was, between c. In amphitryon the term tragicomoedia tragicomedy appears for the first time in latin literature to describe this blending of comedy and tragedy, and it is the god mercury who coins. The amphitruo of plautus chicago journals university of chicago. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Click download or read online button to get plautus barbarus book now. Plautus amphitruo cambridge greek and latin classics also available for read onlin. It is, essentially, a farce, as it covers a classic switchup theme where the god jupiter pretends to be the main. Amphitryon is a tragicomic play written by roman playwright titus maccius plautus. In the amphitruo plautus stages an imaginary world of mischievous gods and bewildered mortals, a place where personal identities, literary sources, and genre expectations are all in flux and a magically long night is center stage and played for. Roman laughter this page intentionally left blank roman laughter the comedy of p l a u t u ssecond editionerich. It is believed that he was born in sarsina, a small town in emilia romagna in northern italy, in around 254 bc.
The play pseudolus provides an introduction to the world of roman comedy from one of its best practitioners, plautus. Plautus barbarus download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Download plautus amphitruo cambridge greek and latin classics ebook in pdf, epub, mobi. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Amphitruo cambridge greek and latin classics, download pdf plautus. The project gutenberg ebook of amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi. The plots of plautus also are more varied than those of terence. Latin text, notes, vocabulary, and scholarly commentary on 11 plautus plays. Maccius plautus, amphitryon, or jupiter in disguise. Not much is known about titus maccius plautus early life. Giosue carducci6 books in txt formatgiovanni verga2 books in pdf formatnew jersey. Dr christenson utilizes recent work in performance. Poetics and playfulness in plautus and terence the w. More than laughter in plautuss amphitryon plautus s amphitryon is an anomaly among extant roman comedies, because it is the one surviving example of a play in which gods appear alongside mortal characters.