| 单词 | Plautus |
| 例句 | In the classical age, religion could possibly imply "scruples," as evident in the writings of Plautus and certainly a few decades later in the writings of playwright Publius Terentius Afer. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Haunted House Party, A Roman Comedy A slave schemes to protect his profligate young master from a reckoning in Troubadour Theater Company’s reimagining of Plautus’ ancient farce “Mostellaria.” L.A. theater openings, Sept. 4-11: Patti LuPone and more 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z One of its earliest appearances is in works such as the plays of second-century B.C. writer Plautus. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z He’s a great Falstaffian incarnation of the braggart soldier type that dates back to Plautus. Unmasking the Spanish ‘Impostor’ Who Lied About Surviving the Nazis 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But given that nothing ages faster than comedy, how does one revive Plautus’ works today? The Troubies turn an ancient Roman comedy into a modern 'Haunted House Party' 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Shakespeare learned his farcical grammar from studying Plautus at school. The Troubies turn an ancient Roman comedy into a modern 'Haunted House Party' 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z According to the classicist Niall Slater, the word defies "a theologically rigorous definition" in Plautus. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Theatergoers will have the rare chance to see Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors“ and the play that inspired it, Plautus’s “Brothers Menaechmus,” in Santa Cruz this summer. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z An antic adaptation of several ancient comedies by Plautus, featuring a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, and the first Broadway show for which Sondheim created both music and lyrics. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z For example, in one scene in Plautus' "Asinaria," a woman is bound by a contract from following other male lovers, including gods, a restraint called "religiosa." From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Potts smiled apologetically and began to discuss drama in ancient Rome and the works of playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Why is a zany comedy troupe performing ancient Roman theater? The story behind the Troubies' 'Haunted House' 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Inspired by the ancient farces of Plautus, this convoluted tale of a wily slave, young lovers and dirty old men in dirty old Rome ingeniously finds the links between classical comedy and its burlesque-house descendants. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z That was followed in 1962 by A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an adaptation of farces by ancient Roman playwright Plautus, for which he wrote both music and lyrics. Composer Stephen Sondheim dies at 91 - US media 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Plautus celebrated Trump’s “rebellion against this elite and its culture,” and argued that Trump’s muscular nationalism could revive American politics, notwithstanding his “avoidance of policy specifics.” A New Trumpist Magazine Débuts at the Harvard Club 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Indeed, according to the Roman playwright Plautus, “a woman without paint is like food without salt”. Why do girls wear makeup? You asked Google – here’s the answer 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “A quote attributed to Plautus is one we use and believe strongly in: ‘In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.’ 10 Investing Strategies to Last a Lifetime 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z He will quote you a nice point in the old authors, from Plato to Plautus and back again. What Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell Teaches About Power 2012-10-21T05:05:38Z Plautus never got back to me with statutory citations but his characterization of my posts did inspire a piece that I had some fun with mourning the Disneyfication of the raunchiest block in America. Go Tell The Spartans - Passive Activities Makes It To 300 - Thanks To Jennifer Aniston Not In The Nude 2012-05-30T01:49:13Z Cicero had declared that nothing great or noble could exist in a slave, and the plays of Plautus exhibit the same estimate in every scene. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Of course, as the aforementioned Plautus was no doubt unaware, too much salt – a probable feature of life in ancient Rome due to the absence of refrigeration – can be a bad thing. Why do girls wear makeup? You asked Google – here’s the answer 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Who would give up the glances he has obtained into the private life of antiquity from Cicero's letters, from Plautus or Terence? Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Lucretius and Catullus are excellently represented: as in the field of Roman drama are Plautus and Terence, with fragments of elder playwrights. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z What prodigy, then, enabled him to behold her living, and witnessing the performance of the Casina of Plautus? One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z To this day I look back to William Ramsay's lectures on Roman Antiquities, and readings of Juvenal and Plautus, as more interesting than many a good stage play that I have seen in the theatre.... Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z In the plays of Plautus it is treated much as conjugal fidelity was treated in England by the playwriters of the Restoration. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z But you must come to-morrow; we are going to act the Menacchini of Plautus; and besides the wit of the Latin you will see all the youth and beauty of Florence.' The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z Plautus calls an entertainment free from these despicable guests, Hospitium sine muscis. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Meanwhile neo-Latin comedy had had a beginning and was largely stimulated by the discovery, in 1427, of twelve hitherto unknown comedies of Plautus. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z In 1681 appeared her prose version of Anacreon and Sappho, and in the next few years she published prose versions of Terence and some of the plays of Plautus and Aristophanes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The pander and the courtesan are the leading characters of Plautus, and the more modest Terence never attained an equal popularity. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Of the latter, his classical studies may, no doubt, be taken as the inspiration, and his translation of Sophocles and Plautus will long rank with the most successful of Magyar translations of the ancient classics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z From a passage of Plautus, it appears that this manual application was resorted to in his days to procure sleep. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But such passages are probably to be classed among the frequent Roman allusions to be found in Plautus, which had no equivalent in his original. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Plautus and Terence we can regard merely as tolerably successful imitators of the Greeks. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Everywhere we find the plots of Terence or of Plautus interwoven with a Novella in the style of Boccaccio. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The first that occurs to me is Tyndarus, the slave hero of the Captivi of Plautus, pronounced by the great critic Lessing to be the most beautiful play ever brought upon the stage. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z The sepia octopus was also in great repute; and Plautus, in his Casina, brings on an old man who had just been purchasing some in the market. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Again, the great fertility of Plautus and his many-sided contact with life are apparent in the number and variety of his metaphors and illustrations from, and other references to, many varieties of human occupation. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z —This line of Plautus is followed by parallel quotations from other writers. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z At the close of the fifteenth century it was usual to crown courtly festivals with scenic recitations of favourite pieces by Terence and Plautus. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The mantle of Plautus—supposing the dramatist to have died with a coat to his back—may be said to have fallen on Terentius Afer, or Terence. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z The same may be observed in Plautus almost everywhere. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z There are none of the plays of Plautus which it is so difficult to criticise from a modern point of view as the 'Amphitruo.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This struggle—not his own special fight, for he is too simple and modest a man to play the part of Plautus’s braggart captain—he recorded in his work, Where Three Empires Meet. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z That caricature, executed with inexhaustible finesse and piquant sallies of fresh personality, accommodated itself to the antiquated framework of plots as old as Plautus. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z What cared Duke Ercole, that bid His mummers to the market place, What th' onion-sellers thought or did So that his Plautus set the pace For the Italian comedies? Responsibilities and other poems 2011-07-28T02:00:10.517Z Again, we may infer the absence of scenery from the elaboration with which Plautus, for one, localizes the habitations of his leading characters. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z On the other hand, cretic and trochaic metres, from their affinity to the old Saturnian, came most easily to the early dramatists, and are largely employed by Plautus to express lively emotion. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Plautus and Terence were read in the monasteries, not played, and so were the Biblical comedies by Hrotswitha, of which we have spoken, intended to be read only, not played. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Meanwhile Italian literature, stimulated and powerfully influenced by humanism, acquired independence; and the comedies of Plautus and Terence were translated and performed in the vernacular. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z In his first great success, London Assurance, you may find not only Goldsmith and Sheridan, but Terence and Plautus, who had reached him by way of Molière. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z In one of Plautus' plays there is a curiously interesting expression that is recalled by this subject. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z He has none of the purely Roman characteristics of Plautus, in sentiment, allusion, or style12; none of his extravagance, and none of his creative exuberance of fancy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, the nun who celebrated the great acts of the emperor Otto I, wrote some Biblical comedies, in order to prevent the nuns from enjoying the comedies of Plautus and Terence. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z The same fate befell the plays of Plautus and Terence, and of our elder Italian dramatists. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z In looking over the well-known volumes, I only missed two, Virgil and Plautus; I suppose he took these with him. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z These distinctions are of course deduced from the practice of the Latin drama—the tragedies of Seneca on the one hand, and the comedies of Plautus and Terence on the other. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The characters in Terence, although more consistent and more true to ordinary life, are more faintly drawn than those of Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Early English, French, and Italian dramatists all turned to Seneca as a model for tragedy, and to Plautus and Terence as models for comedy. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Plautus had remained satisfied with exhibiting a miser, who deprived himself of all the comforts of life, to watch night and day over an unproductive treasure; but Moliere went deeper into the mind. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z To no one, however, has Plautus been so much indebted as to Camerarius, whose zeal and diligence were such, that there was scarcely a verse of Plautus which did not receive from him some emendation. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The classical comedies of Plautus and Terence were the models, and Aristotle's Poetics the guide, of all the discussions on comedy during the Renaissance. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The diction of Terence, while it wants the creativeness and exuberance of Plautus, is free from the mannerisms which accompanied these large endowments of the older poet. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z They are all lost, but we may gain some idea of them from Plautus and Terence, and from the fragments which have been found, some of them fairly recently. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z But, though popular in the ancient theatre, the Epidicus does not appear to be one of the plays of Plautus which has been most frequently imitated on the modern stage. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Taubman, the next editor of Plautus of any note, compiled the commentaries of others. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Fleckeisen is chiefly known for his labours on Plautus and Terence; in the knowledge of these authors he was unrivalled, except perhaps by Ritschl, his life-long friend and a worker in the same field. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The tone of Horace is more contemptuous towards Plautus than towards Ennius and the tragic poets. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The two great Roman comedy writers, Plautus and Terence, based their work, however, upon the new comedy of Greece, especially upon the plays of Menander and Diphilus. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z According to the Delphin Plautus, it was taken from a lost play of Menander, entitled Διδυμοι; but other commentators have thought, that it was more probably derived from Epicharmus, or some other Sicilian dramatist. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Their feelings on this subject, and the opposition Plautus edited by Pareus, stimulated Taubman to give an amended edition of his former one. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z As is the case with Plautus the same metaphors, thoughts, and words recur from time to time in similar situations. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Even the 'asides' to the spectators, which often occur in Plautus, may in many cases be due to the comedians of a later time. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Drawing on Plautus, they constructed duly-knitted plots, divided into acts and scenes and full of homely native fun, for their pupils to present. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z We have the imposture of Merlin, who corresponds with Plautus’s Tranio, as to the haunted house, and his subterfuge when the usurer comes to claim the money which he had lent. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Prolegomena on the Life and Writings of Plautus, is derived from various sources, and is very copious. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z But while he thus gains in elegance as compared with Plautus, he loses the breezy vigor of the older poet. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z These three plays show Plautus at his best in regard to the delineation of character, to moral tendency, to the conduct of a story by means of humorous incidents and situations. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It is to him that is due the revival of the regular performances of Plautus' plays. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The play opens during the storm, in a manner eminently beautiful and romantic—an excellence which none of the other plays of Plautus possess. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z None of the old commentators could publish an edition of Plautus, without indulging in a dissertation De Obscœnis. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The writers of comedy, second century B. C.: Plautus and Terence. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z But whatever were his motives for doing so, Plautus professes to introduce his hearers to a representation of Greek manners and morals. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z As the playwright Plautus put it: "In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men." Twenty-Five Good Things That Can Be Bad for You 2011-01-11T22:51:34Z Aulus Gellius269 mentions, that there were about a hundred and thirty plays, which, in his age, passed under the name of Plautus; and of these, nearly forty titles, with a few scattered fragments, still remain. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It was chiefly prepared by Aug. Otho, but Ernesti wrote the preface, containing a full account of the previous editions of Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Plautus displays a rougher, more vigorous strength and a broader humor; and, within the necessary limitations of which we have spoken, he is more national in his spirit, more popular in his appeal. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Reflexion on life was altogether strange to a Roman in the age of Plautus; to a Greek it was easy and hackneyed. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "Seneca could not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light for them." William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z It must be always be recollected, that the plays of Plautus were written solely to be represented, and not to be read. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The preliminary notices concerning the Life and Writings of Plautus, and the previous editions of his works, are very brief and unsatisfactory. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z We find these oaths so distributed in Terence and Plautus, the women swearing by Castor and the men by Hercules. A Cursory History of Swearing Plautus cannot be said to care much about any of them except as objects of amusement and of the study of human nature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Like so many of his literary predecessors, who had been formed by the loftier genius of the Greek past, like Plautus and Cicero, he vented his rage on a degenerate Hellenism. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Accordingly, many of the jests of Plautus are such as might be expected from a writer anxious to accommodate himself to the taste of the times, and naturally catching the spirit of ribaldry which prevailed. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z His principal aim in this new edition is to restore the lines of Plautus to their proper metrical arrangement. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Indeed the expression can only mean, that the characters of this play of Plautus were Sicilian Greeks. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 The names of five or six comic dramatists are known, who fill the space of eighteen years between the death of Plautus and the representation of the earliest play of Terence, the 'Andria.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I had made acquaintance with a pious printer, Andrew Cratander; he presented me with a Plautus, which he had printed in octavo. The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. Plautus, who was of bolder genius, varies the place of action, when the variation suits his great purpose of merriment and jest. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z With a similar view of restoring the proper measure to the verses, various editions of single plays of Plautus have, within these few years, been printed in Germany. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Plautus has sometimes Doric names for his characters; thus a parasite in the Stichus I. 3. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 Two of the longest of his fragments express with more bitterness and less humour the feelings which husbands in Plautus entertain towards their wives. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In his rollicking good-humor and content with the world as he finds it, Goldoni is much like Plautus. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Plautus has very frequently single plots, which he was enabled to support by the force of drollery. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z With regard to Plautus, Maffei mentions, as the first translation of the Amphitryon, a work in ottava rima, printed without a date. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z But philosophy as taught at Rimini did not attract our hero, and instead of poring over the long passages dictated to him by his professor, he read Plautus, Terence, Aristophanes, and the fragments of Menander. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern They are among the most popular of the plays of Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Terence and Plautus were often revived on the stage, still oftener imitated in Latin. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Plautus has more variety in his exhibition of characters and manners, but his pictures are often overcharged, while those of Terence are never more highly coloured than becomes the modesty of nature. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Though spoken of by Maffei as a dramatic version, it is in fact a tale or novel founded on the comedy of Plautus, and was called Geta e Birria587. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The last named, a free imitation of Plautus's 'Amphitryo,' is by far the best play of the three. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII In the Ciceronian age the works of these forgotten playwrights were for the most part attributed to Plautus, probably with the view of gaining some temporary popularity for them. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z And what Part of this Play, Sir, can you charge with a Theft either from any French Author, from Plautus, Fletcher, Congreve, or Corneille? A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope Men of refined taste would prefer Terence; Plautus diverted both patrician and plebeian326.” History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Plautus, however, was not one of the classics earliest rendered. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z They seem to have hesitated between three models, the indigenous farce, the Italian comedy, which was a graft on the Latin, and the Latin comedy of Plautus and Terence itself. A Short History of French Literature Plays of a later date would have clearly shown by their diction that they were not the work of Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Amphitryons, a Portuguese adaptation from Plautus which was very well received. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Many of the latter which occur in the Avare, have not been borrowed from Plautus, yet are not of Moliere’s invention. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He was unfortunately possessed of the opulence and leisure which Providence had denied to Plautus, Terence, and Catullus; and the leisure he enjoyed was chiefly devoted to translation. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Baïf then turned to the new theatre, which his comrade Jodelle had introduced, and translated or adapted several plays of Plautus, Terence, and Sophocles, but these will be noticed elsewhere. A Short History of French Literature In this respect the comedy of Plautus contrasts favourably with our own comic drama of the Restoration. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z All the plays of Plautus were translations and adaptations of Greek originals; and Plautus was not even allowed to transfer the scene from Greece to Rome. Lectures on The Science of Language They are full of trifling, and are more loaded than those of any other comedy of Plautus, with quaint conceits, the quibbling witticisms, and the scurrilities of slaves. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z She has not entered, as in her translations of Plautus, into a particular examination of every scene, but has contented herself with some general observations. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z But the rather vague title of “the Plautus of Portugal” is accorded to an earlier comic writer, the celebrated Gil Vicente, who died about 1536, after, it is stated, producing forty-two plays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" But whether written by Plautus or not it is in the spirit of the Plautine comedy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Dousa was author of several volumes of Latin verse and of philological commentaries on Horace, Plautus, Catullus and other Latin poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" All this sufficiently accounts for the vast number of plays ascribed to Plautus, and which the most learned and intelligent critics have greatly restricted. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This corruption of MSS. is sufficiently evinced by the circumstance, that the most ancient grammarians frequently cite verses as from a play of Plautus, which can now no longer be found in the drama quoted. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z With Hadrian begins the period of archaism in Roman literature, that is, an artificial return to the Latin of Cato, Ennius and Plautus, an unmistakable symptom of intellectual sterility. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Some Roman critics ranked him above even Plautus as a comic poet. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Of these authors we know something from fragments, but more from their Latin adapters Plautus and Terence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The editor of the Delphin Plautus has not rejected above five pages from the twenty plays on this account; and many passages even in those could hardly offend the most scrupulous reader. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z There can be no doubt that even the oldest MSS. of Plautus were early corrupted by transcribers, and varied essentially from each other. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z He appears also to have been conversant in Plautus, from whom he has taken the plot of one of his plays. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 I have retained, with some corrections, the translations of the longer quotations, contained in the first edition, and have added a literal prose version of some passages quoted from Plautus and Terence. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z At first she was awarded the house of Burrhus and the estate of Plautus, whom Nero had recently put to death. Roman Women Fontaine, instead of adapting the incidents to Parisian manners, like Moliere and Regnard, in their delightful imitations of Plautus, has retained the ancient names, and scene of action. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Latin comedies, written in the age of Plautus, were designed to be represented on the stage, and not to be read at home. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Plautus, a comedy, was preferred by the author himself, and is more original. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Where there is difficulty in interpreting Plautus, this arises either from the uncertainty of the reading, or from the wealth of his vocabulary. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Plautus says: "The portionless wife is subject to her husband's will; wives with dowries are as executioners for their husbands." Roman Women This constitutes the great difference between Plautus and Terence, as also between the new and old comedy of the Greeks. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The comedies of Plautus are frequently cited by writers of the fourteenth century, particularly by Petrarch, who mentions the amusement which he had derived from the Casina576. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z When dark hours of despondency overshadowed her, she tried to console herself with the beautiful thought of Plautus: "If we support adversity with courage, we shall have a keener relish for returning prosperity." Josephine Makers of History He justifies himself from the charge of plagiarising from Plautus and Naevius8. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z When we turn to Plautus and Terence, we learn a great deal about women, but we encounter none that live and move and have a being. Roman Women Terence attends more to elegance and delicacy in the expression of passion—Plautus to comic expression. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This proceeding Poggio highly resented; and having in vain solicited their restoration, he accused Ursini of attempting to make it be believed that Plautus had been recovered by his exertions, and at his own expense579. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z A noise was heard from within the house, and before his master's children could see him Plautus ran to yoke himself again to the mill-spindle, while the Greek left the place, astounded by this episode. Sónnica We find none of the rollicking vituperation and execration in which Plautus revels. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I fancied myself listening to Plautus or Terence in prose. Roman Women Plautus gives the stronger, Terence a more elegant delight. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Few Latin classics have been more corrupted than Plautus, by those who wished to amend his text. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Boethius, like Savage in our own days, died in a prison; Terence was a slave, and Plautus did the work of a horse. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Another passage, from the Synephebi, is more in the spirit of Terence than of Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z There was no accusation against Servilia's father more severe than that he was a friend of Plautus, whom Nero, for reasons utterly unjust, but entirely satisfactory to himself, had caused to be executed. Roman Women It is completed on this plan by Thornton, the English translator of Plautus, and by Antonius Codrus Urceus, a professor in the University of Bologna, who died in the year 1500. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z These, however, though they have been inserted into all subsequent editions of Plautus, are evidently written by a more modern hand than that of Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Of the plays then passing under the name of Plautus, he recognized twenty-five as genuine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" In the interval between Plautus and Terence, the great gap which was never again to be bridged over had been made between the mass of the people and a small educated class. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Her age is so tender that she could not have known Plautus, whose friend they accuse himself of being. Roman Women Regnard has also introduced an agreeable variety, by discriminating the characters of the brothers, between whom Plautus and Shakspeare have scarcely drawn a shade of difference. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He has prefixed a Dissertation, in which he maintains, that Plautus, in this comedy, has rigidly observed the dramatic unities of time and place. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The twenty-one plays of Plautus accepted by Varro are doubtless the twenty now extant, together with the lost Vidularia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" His plots are tamer and less varied in their interest than those of Plautus, but they are worked out much more carefully and artistically. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "Oh yes, I believe you are right; but to tell the truth, I'm not much of an admirer of Plautus." The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 The slaves of Plautus correspond to the valets—the Crispins, and Merlins of the French theatre, whose race commenced with Merlin, in Scarron’s Marquis Ridicule. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In her dissertation on the Epidicus, which was a favourite play of Plautus himself, Mad. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z They came of an ancient race, these Crispins and Scapins, that had flourished in Italy and in Spain since Plautus and Terence brought them over from Greece. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 In one of these passages he has adapted his Greek original to the coarser Roman taste with even less fastidiousness than Plautus generally shows3. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We left Ashburner and his host talking about Plautus and agriculture. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 In none of those numerous plays which turn on the recognition of lost children, has Plautus ever exhibited an affecting interview, or even hit on an expression of natural tenderness. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z M. de Limiers, who published a version of the whole plays of Plautus in 1719, has not rendered anew those which had been translated by Mad. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speake with Plautus tongue, if they would speak Latin, so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they would speak English. An Introduction to Shakespeare He seems to have had nothing of the creative originality of Plautus, nor ever to have enjoyed the same general popularity. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If Plautus uses the word in that sense, as it is an uncommon one, the passage should have been quoted, or a reference given. Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc His indulgent conformity, however, to the unpolished taste of his age, ought not to be admitted as an excuse for the obscenities which Plautus has introduced. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Examinations and analyses of each piece, expositions of the plots, with notices of Plautus’ imitations of the ancient writers, and those of the moderns after him, are inserted in this work. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z From the Amphitruo of Plautus, Shakespeare derived the doubling of slaves, and the scene in which the younger twin and his slave are shut out of their own home. An Introduction to Shakespeare But he deals with these topics rather in the spirit of raillery adopted by Plautus, than in that of Juvenal. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The early Elizabethan tragedy was a reincarnation of Seneca, as comedy was of Plautus. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He was called Plautus from his splay feet, a defect common among the Umbrians. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The English were early acquainted with the plays of Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The Comedy of Errors from Plautus is his only play based on classical sources. An Introduction to Shakespeare But Horace shows by no means the same deference to the admirers of Plautus and Ennius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The plays of Plautus and Terence deal also with the products of Athens, and, indeed, every Roman comedy was to a certain extent a copy, either in form or spirit, of the Greek. History of Human Society It is not certain, however, from what Greek author the play of Plautus was taken. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In the year 1746, Thomas Cooke, the well-known translator of Hesiod, published proposals for a complete translation of Plautus, but he printed only the Amphitryon. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Source.—Shakespeare borrowed most of his plot from the Menaechmi of Plautus. An Introduction to Shakespeare It might as fairly be regarded as proceeding from a jealousy of the merits of Plautus, as from hostility to the innovating tendency of Ennius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z There are no poets in this age of ours, Not to compare with Plautus. Collected Poems Volume Two Euripides also is said to have written a play entitled Alcmena, on the story of Amphitryon, but how far Plautus may have been indebted to him for his plot cannot be now ascertained. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Dr Johnson has told, that Cooke lived twenty years on this translation of Plautus, for which he was always taking in subscriptions593. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Shakespeare added to Plautus's story the second twin-slave and the parents, together with the girl whom the elder twin meets and loves in Syracuse. An Introduction to Shakespeare In the dialogue 'De Oratore,' he represents Crassus as comparing the idiomatic purity which distinguished the conversation of his mother-in-law, Laelia, and other ladies of rank, with the style of Plautus and Naevius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus,8 now not please; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The English translator of Plautus has remarked the great similarity of manners between her and Desdemona, while placed in similar circumstances. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z To both versions, there were subjoined remarks, chiefly collected from the best commentators, and from the notes of the French translators of Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z I will not affirm that of Shakespear; I believe he was able to do what Pedants call construe, but that he was able to read Plautus without Pain and Difficulty I can never believe. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare It was to him, not to Naevius or to Plautus, that the Romans looked as the father of their literature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Sometime, with the old fellow in Plautus, they are brought back to their horn-book again, to learn to spell their fortune in love. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Though chiefly indebted to Plautus, he has not so closely followed his original as in the Amphitryon. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The MSS. of Terence which were coeval with the age of the author, or shortly posterior to it, were corrupted from the same cause as the MSS. of Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Rowe believes that his acquaintance with Latin authors was such as he might have gained at school: he could remember tags of Horace or Mantuan, but was unable to read Plautus in the original. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare There is no breath of the poetry of rural nature in Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The weight of the books pleased him for there was much good letters there—a book of Tully's epistles for himself and two volumes of Plautus' comedies for the Lady Mary. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court The resemblance of the two Antipholis’, and the other circumstances which give rise to the intrigue, are nearly the same as in Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Abbé Marolles has succeeded no better in his translation of Terence, than in that of Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Now Shakespear, say they, being conversant with Plautus, it undeniably follows that he was acquainted with the Ancients; because no Roman Author could be hard to him who had conquer'd Plautus. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Plautus writes in the spirit of an 'ingenuus,' in good-humoured sympathy with the mass of the citizens, and with no feeling of bitterness towards the aristocracy, or indeed to any human being whatsoever. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Lady Mary sat reading her Plautus in her large painted gallery, with all her maids about her sewing, some at a dress for her, some winding silk for their own uses. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court But cowardice is not a striking attribute of the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus, at least it is not made the principal source of ridicule as with the moderns. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z His translation appeared in 1659, in two volumes 8vo, accompanied by remarks, in the same taste as those with which he had loaded his Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Or how comes he to chuse Plautus preferably to Terence, who is so much more just, more graceful, more regular, and more natural? Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Plautus felt the strong rebound of spirits from a long-continued state of tension, from a time of anxiety and self-sacrifice, in a less noble manner. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Her dry finger pointed to a word in her book of Plautus. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court There is, however, a coincidence connected with this drama of Plautus, which is much more curious and striking than its resemblance to the Guardian of Massinger. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Abbé Morolles, already mentioned as the translator of Plautus and Terence, turned Lucretius into French prose: Of this version there were two editions, the first of which was printed in 1650. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z There is one Play of his, indeed, The Comedy of Errors, in a great measure taken from the Menæchmi of Plautus. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Plautus shows a large indulgence, not unmixed with a vein of saturnine humour, for these new ways on which both young and old were eagerly entering. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He began again good-humouredly to give her careful directions as to how she should act; as for instance by offering to make for the printers a fair copy of the Lady Mary's Commentary upon Plautus. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Plautus, it is well known, had considerable knowledge of languages. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z So slippery are the cooks that Plautus calls one Congrio—sea eel—so black that another deserves the title Anthrax—coal. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome We see that our Adversaries themselves acknowledge, that if Shakespear was able to read Plautus with Ease, nothing in Latinity could be hard to him. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare But the largest endowment of Plautus, the truest note of his creativeness, is his power of expression by means of action, rhythm, and language. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The play was the Menechmi of Plautus, and Duke Philip interpreted it to her. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court With this plot, chiefly taken from Plautus, another series of incidents, invented by the Italian dramatist, is closely connected. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The seeds of this grass were milled, the flour or meal believed to possess some narcotic properties, as stated by Ovid and Plautus, but recent researches have cast some doubt upon its reported deleterious qualities. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome If then Shakespear was qualify'd to read Plautus with Ease, he could read with a great deal more Ease the Translations of Sophocles and Euripides. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare In the case of any dramatist this is always difficult; and Plautus is not in form only, but in spirit, essentially dramatic. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Two years later the translations of Plautus and Terence were published. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) Now, Osannus maintains, that there were no sun-dials at Rome in the time of Plautus, and that the day was not then distributed into hours, but into much larger portions of time276. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z When Varius was emperor, this phrase of the kitchen was as rife as when Plautus wrote—a proof that occasionally slang has been long lived.” Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome The parasite and the vain-glorious in Parolles, in All's Well that ends Well, is as good as any thing of that kind in Plautus or Terence. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Their political indifference finds an echo in the slighting allusions which Plautus makes to the duties of public life37. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z As a result, its Preface uses “we” throughout where the Plautus uses “I.” Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) From the review which has now been given of the comedies of Plautus, something may have been gathered of their general scope and tenor. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The witty Plautus names a cook in one of his comedies “Congrio,” because the fellow was “slippery.” Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome But that he had read Plautus himself, is plain from his Comedy of Errors, which is taken visibly from the Menæchmi of that poet.... Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The plays of Plautus, unlike those of Terence and most of those of Caecilius, have generally Latin titles, but nearly all his personages have Greek names. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Judging by the number of editions, the Terence found its market, for where the Plautus ran to only two editions, the first and that of 1716, the Terence appeared in a seventh edition in 1729. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) Plautus, we have seen, borrowed his Trinummus from the Thesaurus of Philemon. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Plautus uses this fish name to characterize a very cunning person, a “slippery” fellow. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Many of these courses deal with one particular author and his works, such as Sophocles, Plato, Plautus, or Horace. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Nothing can be more spontaneous and natural than the dialogue in Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Only Terence will teach ’em one thing that Plautus does not, to wit, the great Cunning of working in Under-Plots, and still preserving the Unity of Action; for Plautus has none of them. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) That comedy, though the version is now lost, had been translated by Plautus, under the title of Commorientes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Selwyn has a chaplain and parasite, one Dr. Warner, than whom Plautus, or Ben Jonson, or Hogarth, never painted a better character. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges What comedies of Plautus or Terence or Aristophanes or Menander; what tragedies of Seneca, or of the seven dramatists of Alexandria who were called the "Pleias," were presented here? Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit But it is not only in his language and manner that Plautus shows his independence of his originals. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Since the Preface to Plautus has no other pagination, unmarked page breaks are shown as | in the left margin. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) The character of Phormio is finely separated from that of Gnatho, and is better drawn than the part of any parasite in Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The general conception of the piece, as well as many of the individual scenes, are taken from Plautus, but adapted to French society with a degree of felicity belonging to Moli�re alone. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Plautus was born in the little Umbrian town of Sarsina, of free but poor parents. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight When we consider the vigorous life and even the art with which the whole piece is worked out, we understand why Plautus, with good reason, took, in his old age, especial pleasure in this play. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Plautus Preface is far less detailed, but refers back to these reasons, while stressing the function of the translation for the schoolboy. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) Accordingly, Plautus found it most prudent to imitate the style of the new comedy, which had been brought to perfection, about half a century before his birth, by Menander. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z From whence Plautus says in his Pseudolus, speaking of wine, “He is a dangerous wrestler, he presently trips up the heels.” The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) We conclude from these varied employments that Plautus can hardly have been less than thirty years old when he began to write plays. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors But the absence of incident, coherent plot, and adequate d�nouement, must prevent this play from being ranked among the more important compositions of Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z When speaking for himself alone in the Preface to the Plautus, Echard’s claims were less grandiose. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) It thus appears that in his prologues Plautus approached nearer to Euripides than to those comic writers whom in his argument and all other respects he chiefly followed. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Sepia octopus was also in great repute, and Plautus, in his play of Cisina, introduces an old man who has just been purchasing some at the market. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction Plautus is said to have written his own epitaph. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Whether or not this embodiment of the miser owes much to the original creation of Plautus, it is certainly realised by him with the greatest truth and vivacity. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Echard uses the Prefaces to assess and compare Plautus and Terence, but he also uses them as a springboard for a critique of the state of English comedy. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) But by far the most celebrated imitation of Plautus is the Amphitrion of Moliere, who has managed with much delicacy a subject in itself not the most decorous. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Of the slaves of the state, the public scribes were sometimes found in excellent circumstances.448.The peculium was fully developed in the time of Plautus and Terence. Principles Of Political Economy Plautus’ plays were early criticized as to their genuineness. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors The task undertaken by Naevius and Plautus was indeed a much easier one than that accomplished by the early writers of tragedy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z So that what I mean is, that Plautus’s Stile ought rather to be imitated for Common Discourse than Terence’s. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) Through the whole comedy, Moliere has given a different colour to the behaviour of Jupiter, from that thrown over it by Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "The Comedy of Errors" was unquestionably suggested by the "Twins" of Plautus. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Once at least he seems to have confused the date of an author’s floruit and that of his death, making Plautus die in B.C. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors That this district must have been thoroughly Latinised in the time of Plautus, is attested by the idiomatic force and purity of his style9. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z What if Plautus, in the account of Hercules, mistaketh nativity for conception? A History of Elizabethan Literature The parasites of Plautus are almost as deserving a dissertation as Shakspeare’s clowns. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z If the "Comedy of Errors" is an "imitation" of Plautus, "Paradise Lost" is an "imitation" of Moses. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Private life.—These references are mostly to the lower classes, especially slaves, with whom Plautus was very familiar. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors In the large place which the details of good living fill in his plays, Plautus exaggerates a tendency which is discernible in the more decorous fictions of Scott and Dickens. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I have seen the like in the plays of Plautus that here have been played at Court.' The Fifth Queen Crowned This overcharged character, along with that of the slave and parasite, were transferred into the dramas of Plautus, the faithful mirrors of the new Greek comedy. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The object of the conspirators, as Paris alledged, was to depose Nero, and raise a certain descendant of Augustus Cæsar, named Plautus, to the supreme command, in his stead. Nero Makers of History Series The year of his birth is unknown; he is never mentioned, like other old writers, such as Plautus and Ennius, as having lived to a great age. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors The great movement of his age acted on the mind of Plautus in a manner different from that in which it affected Ennius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It is interesting to compare Shakespeare's mind with Plautus's in the description of Epidamnum. William Shakespeare Notwithstanding what is said by Apuleius concerning the purity of Philemon’s dramas, in none of the plays of Plautus is greater moral turpitude represented. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Plautus, it is said, wrote one hundred and thirty plays. Ancient States and Empires The different kinds of scenes are under the same conditions as in Plautus. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors The latter had been most successfully cultivated by Naevius and his younger contemporary, Plautus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Menæchmi of Plautus is a piece of very skilful theatrical craft. William Shakespeare She is painted by Plautus as delighted with the glory of her husband. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z For the King's Highness' daughter had a great learning and was agate of writing a commentary of Plautus his plays. Privy Seal His Last Venture Prosody.—For the variations from later usage, see under ‘Plautus.’ The Student's Companion to Latin Authors More than Terence, Plautus maintains a dramatic and ironical superiority over his characters. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z His own phrase is a miscellany of old words, deceased long before the Cæsars, and entombed by Varro, and the modernest man he follows is Plautus. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters Plautus excels in low comedy and ridicule, Terence in drawing just characters, and maintaining them to the last. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In this he disagreed with the soldier in Plautus, who says, One man that has eyes is better by far as a witness than ten that have ears. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Terence is, of course, more regular in this respect than Plautus. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Plautus shows scarcely any of the Roman feeling of dignity or seriousness, or any regard for patriotism or public duty. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Why should not Beaumont in the morning please, As well as Plautus, Aristophanes? Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters Plautus appears the better comedian of the two, as Terence the finer poet. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The mode of clearing away the spider webs may be seen described in the beginning of the “Stichus” of Plautus. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes The play was written in Plautus’ old age, probably about B.C. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors But the gift for which Plautus is pre-eminent above all the earlier, and in which he is not surpassed by any of the later poets, is the exuberant vigour and spontaneous flow of his diction. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Certain plays of Aristophanes, of Terence, of Plautus were translated; but, in truth, classical models had little influence. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Plautus shone most on the stage; Terence pleases best in the closet. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In the Amphitryon of Plautus, Mercury is represented as swearing by Hercules before that God was born. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes That the prologues are interpolated is shown by their diction; the wit is often poor, and the language un-Plautine, or imitated closely from Plautus’ genuine works. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Aeschinus, in the Adelphoe, shows a higher spirit and more energy of character than most of the other lovers in Plautus or Terence. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z No longer, O scholars, shall Plautus Be taught us. The Book of Humorous Verse There is likewise a good deal of the spirit of Plautus and Terence in the old English comedy, particularly in the characters. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Did there not now sit before him the lieutenant Plautus, who, only a month before, had met with a like disgrace, and about whom he had composed derisive verses? The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The prologues in their present form probably date from a period shortly after that in which Terence flourished, when there was a want of new plays, and people went back to Plautus. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors All readers of Plautus and Terence know what a bugbear to slaves the threat of being sent to the mill was. Plutarch's Morals Shakespeare doubtless had direct recourse to Plautus as well as to the old play, and he may have read Plautus in English. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles But, even with this assistance, he has done Plautus less justice than his predecessor. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Would not the lieutenant Plautus now rejoice to make retaliatory odes? The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The Acts.—The plays of Plautus probably went on with few breaks, during which the audience were entertained with music. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Till December he continued to work at Venice on editions of Plautus, Terence, and Seneca's tragedies. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation No translation of any other play of Plautus appeared before. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles But it farther appears, that Plautus himself did not wish to claim this indulgence, and intended to crowd the journey and all the preceding dramatic incidents into twelve hours at most. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Yet has he not deceived us: for we know, The Colax is an ancient comedy Of Nævius, and of Plautus; and from thence The Parasite and Soldier both are stolen.” The Comedies of Terence Only about a fourth of Plautus’ verses are in iambic senarii, while in Terence, who followed Menander in this respect, about half of the verses are in this form. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Nicholas Grimald qualifies a translation of Cicero as "my work," and immediately adds, "I call it mine as Plautus and Terence called the comedies theirs which they made out of Greek." Early Theories of Translation From Plautus Shakespeare drew the plot of the ‘Comedy of Errors,’ but it is just possible that Plautus’s comedies, too, were accessible in English. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles It cannot, indeed, be denied, that, in the Casina, the unities of time and place are rigidly observed, and, in point of humour, it is generally accounted inferior to none of Plautus’s dramas. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Troth! all the knowledge is they nothing know: Who, blaming; him, blame Nævius, Plautus, Ennius, Whose great example is his precedent; Whose negligence he’d wish to emulate Rather than their dark diligence. The Comedies of Terence The Language of Plautus, in spite of the Greek dress his plays assume, represents essentially the conversational language of his time. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Horace, Plautus, Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca were the new authors taken up in the last years in school. The Facts About Shakespeare And yet at the same time, Nævius and Plautus, the first Latin comedians, had filled the city with all the borrowed scenes of Menander and Philemon. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Vossius has noticed the inadvertency or ignorance of Plautus in this drama, where, though the scene is laid in Epidaurus, he sends the parasite to Caria, and brings him back in four days. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The scream of Pulcinello is imitated more easily than the masterly strokes of Plautus, or the sly insinuations of Catullus and of Flaccus. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Cicero’s high opinion of Plautus cf. de Off. i. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors The plots of Plautus and Terence offer a series of tricks in which the complications are often increased by having the trickster tricked. The Facts About Shakespeare The material of the "Speeches," so-called, was much the same as that provided at other schools—Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chatham, Aristophanes, Plautus, Molière, Schiller. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography In the particular incidents the Etourdi is compounded of the tricks of Plautus’ slaves; but Moliere has shown little judgment in thus heaping them on each other in one piece. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Of the one hundred and thirty comedies of Plautus, we only inherit twenty imperfect ones. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Plautus appears to refer to this twice, l. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors The Elizabethan drama was a continuation of the medieval drama transformed by the influence of classical models, especially the comedies of Terence and Plautus and the tragedies of Seneca. The Facts About Shakespeare But sometimes great discoveries come from very small things, and Wrench’s Tom played his part in one of the little comedies of life, those of Terence and Plautus not being intended here. Glyn Severn's Schooldays The comedies of Plautus were intended entirely for exhibition on the public stage, and not for perusal in the closet. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Amphitryon of Molière was an imitation of Plautus, who borrowed it from the Greeks, and they took it from the Indians! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Plautus, Plutarch, Porphyry of Tyre, Lord Bacon, Sir William Temple, Cicero, Cyrus the Great, Pope, Newton, and Shelley have all left their testimony in favor of it and of simplicity of living. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated, and deserted lye As they were not of Natures family. The Facts About Shakespeare That same evening the door of a convent opened to receive a novice with two books, Vergil and Plautus, in his hand. Heroes of Modern Europe The audience, for whom the plays of Plautus were written, could understand or enjoy only a representation of the manners and witticisms to which they were accustomed. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This was a comedy of the Latin school, and resembled the Menaechmi of Plautus. Brief History of English and American Literature Yet only experience could show that they were superfluous; and at the epoch of Latin literature in which Plautus lived, it was well done to put them on trial. English Past and Present According to the program, from February 3d to February 8th—with the exception of one evening—five of the plays of Plautus were to be given. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day He was a fine scholar of Latin and could quote Terence, Horace, and Plautus in a way that could stir the somnolent soul even of a school-boy. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble After having considered the plays of Plautus and of Terence, one is naturally led to institute a comparison between these two celebrated dramatists. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z P. 177.—No doubt Bacon had read the treatise of Sallust quoted, but my impression is that he thought the proverb had grown out of the line in Plautus. Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Nay, the language did not even retain those compound epithets which it once had formed, but was content to let numbers of them drop: ‘parcipromus’; ‘turpilucricupidus’, and many more, do not extend beyond Plautus. English Past and Present The presentation of the comedies of Plautus would have no more effect upon people of this age than would a puppet show. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Caecilius holds a place between Plautus and Terence in his treatment of the Greek originals; he did not, like Plautus, confound things Greek and Roman, nor, like Terence, eliminate everything that could not be romanized. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Sometimes there are chasms in Plautus’s fables, and the incidents do not properly adhere—in Terence, all the links of the action depend on each other. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The comedies of Plautus enjoyed unrivaled popularity among the Romans, and continued to be represented down to the time of Diocletian. A Smaller History of Rome We read with him Terence and Plautus, the Medea of Seneca, Horace, and probably some Latin prose, which I have forgotten. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The director of the troop then came forward in the character of Plautus and read the program and the argument of each piece which was to be rendered during the five evenings. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Virgil followed Homer; Plautus copied Menander; and Roman literature took on that secondary and reminiscent character which it never lost. Romance Two Lectures On the whole, Moliere has succeeded best in rendering the passion of avarice hateful: Plautus and Goldoni have only made it ridiculous. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It was not only with the common people that Plautus was a favorite; educated Romans read and admired his works down to the latest times. A Smaller History of Rome Plautus and Terence, two writers of Latin comedy, walk together in pleasant companionship. Raphael A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation The first evening the duke conducted his guests into the theater, and when they had taken their seats, Plautus appeared before the bridal couple and addressed some complimentary verses to them. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day In the same language and with the same success the Amphytrion of Plautus and the Eunuchus of Terence were successively exhibited. Gibbon The above-mentioned plays are the twenty dramas of Plautus, which are still extant. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The years passed, however, without producing imitators, until some time in the years between 1544 and 1551 a Latin scholar, reading the plays of Plautus, decided to write a comedy like them. The Growth of English Drama It lends itself to the gross pleasantries loved of the populace; especially when they are formulated by the shameless genius of an Aristophanes or a Plautus. Social Life in the Insect World Several years before he had commissioned the poets at his court to translate some of the plays of Plautus and Terence into terza rima, and had produced them. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day The drama recommenced with representations of the old plays of Plautus. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour These were subsequently termed Varronian, in consequence of having been separated by Varro from the remainder, as no way doubtful, and universally allowed to be by Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Romans were thanked by the Corinthians for this action and took part in the Isthmian contest, Plautus winning the stadium race in it. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form "Where love has once obtained an influence," observes Plautus dryly, "any flavoring, I believe, will please." The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future "The man whom the gods favor," says Plautus, "they cause to gain wealth." History Of Ancient Civilization Ennius, who commenced it, a man younger than Plautus and older than Terence, was himself half a Greek. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Making, however, some allowance for this, there can be no doubt that Plautus wonderfully improved and refined the Latin language from the rude form in which it had been moulded by Ennius. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This, among the Romans, was the raillery of slaves, of which we have many instances in Plautus. Talks on Talking There is no record of any other such compliment, except that to the Latin dramatist, Plautus, whose "Eunuchus" was performed twice on the same day. Great Italian and French Composers One might also add another century by recurring to the time of Plautus, the second century before Christ. History Of Ancient Civilization Some fifty years later brings us to Plautus—the most remarkable of the Roman comic writers. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The language of Plautus is more rich and luxuriant than that of Terence, but is far from being so equal, uniform, and chaste. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z For others it was a very simple piece of service which more than one man of mind performed—Plautus, they say, and Terence. The Wonders of Pompeii Plautus," he told the class, "wrote comedies, farces—not exercises in translation. The Plastic Age Thus the celebrated works of Plautus and of Terence are imitations of the comedies of Menander and of Diphilus, now lost to us. History Of Ancient Civilization Acoustic humour appears not only in puns, but under the form of long names of which Plautus was especially fond, Periplecomenus, Polymacharoplagides, and Thesaurochrysonicocræ are specimens of his inventive genius in this direction. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The plots of both are artful, but Terence’s are more apt to languish, whilst Plautus’s spirit maintains the action with vigour. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In this kind, Sophocles and Euripides have more excelled among the Greeks than Æschylus; and Terence more than Plautus, among the Romans. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 They are good for a laugh in a theater any day, but Plautus was not restrained by our modern conventions. The Plastic Age "There," says Plautus, "moan the wicked slaves who are fed on polenta; there resound the noise of whips and the clanking of chains." History Of Ancient Civilization Plautus and Terence both complain that they cannot find a really chaste Greek play. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour In some respects it has an affinity to the genuine Aulularia of Plautus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Parasite and the Vain-glorious in Parolles, in All's Well that ends Well is as good as any thing of that Kind in Plautus or Terence. Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Plautus in the Alling free and colloquial translations was enormously funny. The Plastic Age At this universal reception of the Précieuses Ridicules, Molière, it is said, exclaimed—"I need no longer study Plautus and Terence, nor poach in the fragments of Menander; I have only to study the world." Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Terence has not the rough power and drollery of Plautus; his whole attraction lies in the subtlety of his amorous intrigues. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The older spelling, while generally followed in editions of Plautus and Terence, has not yet been adopted in our prose texts. New Latin Grammar And, besides, the Roman drama of Plautus and of Terence was not suited to the comprehension of the multitude, in its form and its preservation of the unities. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction "And yet our fires with joy could Plautus hear; Gay were his jests, his numbers charm'd their ear." Essays on Wit No. 2 We may trace them from Terence and Plautus, as well as Swift and Mandeville. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions What suits the page of Plautus would look poor in 'Oedipus' or 'Agamemnon.' Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series This is usually the case in Plautus and Terence. New Latin Grammar In the Summer of 1594 a translation of a Latin Farce by the Roman Dramatist, Plautus, was made ready for publication in London. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Plautus has adulterated a rich vein of genuine wit and humour, with a mixture of the basest buffoonry. Essays on Wit No. 2 Tho' Art ne're taught him how to write by Rules, Or borrow Learning from Athenian Schools: Yet He, with Plautus, could instruct and please, * See Plutarch's Life of Theseus. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) At eight he wrote a comedy, and ere long began to read the plays of Plautus, Terence, Aristophanes, and Machiavelli. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series In the Latin comic writers, Plautus and Terence, great freedom is permitted, and the various equivalents of the Iambus, viz. the Dactyl, Anapaest, Spondee, Tribrach, Proceleusmatic, are freely admitted in any foot except the last. New Latin Grammar And of course for such an institution of scholarly gentlemen as Gray's Inn, a farce based on Plautus would be likely to be thought appropriate. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies In fact, the whole philosophy on this subject will be found practically embodied in the household economy of Rome about the time of Hannibal, as unfolded by Plautus. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 The main plot is very well managed, as with Plautus once more for a model might properly have been expected; the rather ferociously farcical underplot must surely have been borrowed from some fabliau. The Age of Shakespeare Martial and Plautus caricatured the passions of humanity after Carthage had been destroyed and Julius Cæsar had made of his tomb a city of palaces. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Plautus, Catullus, Propertius, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, and other Latin writers refer to bites as associated with kisses and usually on the lips. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Out of the comparatively simple plot of Plautus, Shakespeare developed an amusing complexity of situations. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Pliny the elder devoted the ninth book of his Natural History to fishes and water-life, and Plautus, Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Juvenal, Pliny the younger and Suetonius all allude to angling here and there. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Only the dregs of society gathered to applaud the comedies of Plautus and Terence. The Theory of the Theatre In his prologue the author refers to Plautus and Terence as his models. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England He translated Terence, part of Plautus, D'Orleans' History of the Revolutions in England, and made numerous compilations on history, geography, and the classics. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature The omissions and changes Shakespeare made from Plautus's plot are almost as important in lending his Play a new effect as the additions and entirely original inventions. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies The conversational language of Terence, for instance, is on a higher plane than that of Plautus, while the characters in Plautus use better Latin than the freedmen in Petronius. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature It contained one of the strongest characters in literature,--Figaro, a reincarnation of the intriguing servant of Menander and Plautus and Molière. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The works of the so-called Latin dramatists, such as those of Plautus and Terence, were mere imitations of the Greek. Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 "I have no occasion to study Plautus or Terence any longer," said he, "I must henceforth, study the world." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 358, February 28, 1829 Is the complexity of Shakespeare's plot over that of Plautus a disadvantage? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Spain was brought under Roman rule in 197 B.C., and consequently Spanish is a natural outgrowth of popular Latin of the time of Plautus. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature The later comedies are much better than the early ones, which are but little more than translations from Plautus and Terence. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Plautus himself would never have attained the comicality of such an idea. The Man Who Laughs Sometimes they were from Terence, Plautus, or Aristophanes; sometimes modifications of the ancient mysteries, meant to enforce the Evangelical theology; sometimes comedies full of the contemporary life. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Diphilus, a Greek comic poet, born at Sinope; contemporary of Menander; was the forerunner of Terence and Plautus, the Roman poets. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Some of them probably heard the jests at the expense of their dialectal peculiarities which Plautus introduced into his comedies. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Weanling pigs, from the fact that they are considered fit to be offered for sacrifice at that age, were formerly called sacres as Plautus calls them when he says, "What's the price of sacred pigs?" Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro And yet you know not To rule your self, you would not to a boy else Like Plautus Braggart boast thus. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country At the present time the best plays of Plautus and Terence are performed at Christmas in the school dormitory. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Besides these, Mr. Eachard has translated three Comedies from Plautus, viz. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV Incidentally it is a rather interesting historical coincidence that the pioneer monopoly in Rome, as in our day, was an oil trust—in the time of Plautus, of course, an olive-oil trust. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Beneath this stone Plautus and Terence lie, Though lieth here but Moliere alone Their threefold gifts of mind made up but one, That witched all France with noble comedy. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 Plautus also alludes to this usage, when, in his "Miles Gloriosus," act iv. sc. The Symbolism of Freemasonry There are a few quasi-altruistic expressions in the plays of Terence and Plautus, but they are not supported by actions and do not reach beyond the sphere of sentimentality into that of sentiment. Primitive Love and Love-Stories The complete Roman drama; all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca, in a variety of translations. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December That strange imitation of the Aulularia of Plautus, of the fourth century, the Querolus, is in a form half prose and half verse. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature With respect to unalterable beauties, of which comedy admits much fewer than tragedy, when they are the subject of our consideration, we must not, too easily, set Aristophanes and Plautus below Menander and Terence. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Gronovius, in commenting on this passage of Plautus, says, "In worshipping and praying to the gods they were accustomed to turn to the right hand." The Symbolism of Freemasonry Riley calls it "the most pure and innocent of all the plays of Plautus;" and when we examine why this is so we find that it is because there is no woman in it! Primitive Love and Love-Stories North.—You like Plautus, then, and endure Terence? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Plautus thought it necessary to prefix to many of his plays an account of the incidents which preceded the action of the play. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Plautus, among the Romans, to whom we must now pass, united the earlier and the later comedy, and joined buffoonery with delicacy. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Thus Plautus makes Palinurus, a character in his comedy of "Curculio," say, "If you would do reverence to the gods, you must turn to the right hand." The Symbolism of Freemasonry This was a comedy of the Latin school, and resembled the Mennaechmi of Plautus. From Chaucer to Tennyson Plautus, Molière, and Dryden have all taken this plot for a comedy entitled Amphitryon. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook A slight, though not a fatal, objection to this theory lies in the fact that the prologues to comedy subsequent to Plautus changed in their character, and contain little narrative. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature With respect, to the two Latin comick poets, Plautus is ingenious in his designs, happy in his conceptions, and fruitful of invention. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces At these places were produced academic compositions, either allegorical like the masques, copies of which we find in Shakespeare and by Ben Jonson, or comedies modelled on Plautus or Terence, or tragedies modelled on Seneca. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Plautus' slaves are as much Athenian as Roman, but the conditions would be much the same in each case. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero This plot has been made a comedy by Plautus, Molière, and Dryden. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook This is not a serious objection, for the plays of Plautus were still known to the cultivated in the later period. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature A miser, copied after nature, will always be the miser of Plautus or Molière; but a Nero, or a prince like Nero, will not always be the hero of Racine. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces The minstrel who sang on that day might possibly have lived to read the first hexameters of Ennius, and to see the first comedies of Plautus. Lays of Ancient Rome This, among the Romans, was the raillery of slaves, of which we have many instances in Plautus. The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces The scenes which Plautus drew, to-night we show, Touched by Molière, by Dryden taught to glow. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook They, as well as Plautus and Terence, translated and adapted Greek epics, tragedies, and comedies. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature And yet at the same time Naevius and Plautus, the first Latin comedians, had filled the city with all the borrowed scenes of Menander and Philemon. Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England There is an interesting contrast between the published editions of Plautus and Bernard Shaw. The Dramatic Values in Plautus For Plautus died in the consulship of P. Claudius and L. Porcius, twenty years after the consulship of the persons we have been speaking of, and when Cato was Censor. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. The plot of this comedy is copied from the Menaechmí of Plautus. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Livius Andronicus, Nævius, and Plautus in the third century before our era show the language as first used for literary purposes, and with them the breach between the spoken and written tongues begins. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Thou, whom the Nine with Plautus' wit inspire, The art of Terence, and Menander's fire; Whose sense instructs us, and whose humour charms, Whose judgment sways us, and whose spirit warms! The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 In the text of Plautus we find nothing but the dialogue, and in the college editions only such editorially-inserted "stage-business" as is fairly evident from the spoken lines. The Dramatic Values in Plautus And sometimes too, like Plautus' old man, he returns to his three letters, A.M.O., the most unhappy of all things living, if he rightly understood what he did in it. The Praise of Folly Plautus with his coarse geniality and lumbering wit made a greater success. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal We can see that plainly enough from the conversations in Plautus and Terence. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature "Intus" means "into" or "within," just as well as "in," as may be seen from numerous instances in Cicero, Caesar, Ovid, Plautus, and other writers of inferior reputation in prose and poetry. Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century Yes, Plautus was great, but he was great in a far different way. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Over and above his easy mastery of language, Plautus has a further Claim to distinction in the wide range of his manner. Latin Literature Menander's plays in turn were the originals of those produced by Plautus and Terence at Rome, whose existing Comedies afford some faint idea of what the lost masterpieces of their Greek predecessor must have been. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 It must have been a lineal descendant of one of the parasites of Plautus who wrote:75 "A barbarian he is to me At whose house I'm not asked to dine." The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Plautus conceived the plan of transporting to Rome Grecian comedies of the time of the new comedy and of adapting them more or less to Latin morals. Initiation into Literature Plautus ... left us a play on the subject of Amphitryon which has had the honour to be deemed worthy of imitation by Molière and Dryden. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Plautus outlived the second Punic War, during which, as we gather from prefaces and allusions, a number of the extant plays were produced. Latin Literature For 'Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light for the law of writ and the liberty.' The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded In formal Latin we notice the same objection to Greco-Latin words, and yet in Plautus, and in other colloquial writers, such compounds are freely used for comic effect. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Later, in the fourth century before Christ, with the refined, witty, and discreet Menander, the "new comedy" was analogous to that of Plautus, of Terence, and that of our own of the seventeenth century. Initiation into Literature In fact, the early performances of Plautus, unless we except the original Terentian productions, stand almost alone in the history of Graeco-Roman comedy as unmasked plays. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Plautus and Ennius, however largely they drew from Greek originals, threw into all their work a manner and a spirit which were essentially those of a new literature in the full tide of growth. Latin Literature Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded So we find in Plautus a certain parasite making a heavy do, and sadly railing at the inventors of hour-glasses and dials as being unnecessary things, there being no clock more regular than the belly. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 If Terence was inferior to Plautus in life, bustle, and intrigue, and in the delineation of national character, he is superior in elegance of language and refinement of taste. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities He aptly points out that Plautus in his selection of originals has in the main chosen plots with more vigorous action than Terence. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Plautus was the earliest, and apparently the most voluminous, of the writers who devoted themselves wholly to comedy. Latin Literature Man is a wolf toward man, as Plautus observes, and the idea has been repeated by Hobbes. Youth and Egolatry As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy amongst the Latines: so Shakspere among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Shakspere and Montaigne Of the few other writers of comedy among the Romans, Statius may be mentioned, who flourished between Plautus and Terence. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities We repeat, the evidence all points irresistibly to the conclusion that Plautus is wholly careless of his dramatic machinery so long as it moves. The Dramatic Values in Plautus But there can be no doubt that Plautus and Terence fully represent the strength and weakness of the Latin palliata. Latin Literature There is nothing in English drama inspired by Greece to compare with the French imitations of Seneca, Plautus and Terence. Authors of Greece In Tract of Time, the Sense of the Word Virtus received still a grated Latitude; and it signify'd Worth, Strength, Authority, and Goodness of all Kinds: Plautus makes use of it, for Assistance. An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War The popularity of Plautus was not confined to Rome, either republican or imperial. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities We see however no need to quarrel with forum; it was Plautus' natural translation for ἀγορά. The Dramatic Values in Plautus The constructive power shown in these pieces is, of course, less that of Plautus himself than of his Greek originals, Philemon, Diphilus, and Menander. Latin Literature It may, however, be questioned whether Plautus did not exceed his models in licentiousness, as he certainly fell below them in elegance. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Cicero was the great model, but Vergil, Plautus, Terence, Martial, Sallust, Horace, and other authors were read and studied. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Molière, perceiving that he had struck the true vein, resolved to study human nature more and Plautus and Terence less. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities No, we are far from attempting to deny to Plautus all dramatic technique, skill in character painting and cleverness of situation, but he was never hide-bound by any technical considerations. The Dramatic Values in Plautus |
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