The Rope and Other Plays [Audiobook] download free by Plautus
- Listen audiobook: The Rope and Other Plays
- Author: Plautus
- Release date: 1975/7/8
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780140441369
- Rating: 7.39 of 10
- Votes: 221
- Review by: Karla Harwood
- Review rating: 7.76 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/25
- Duration: 3H31M49S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, AU, MPEG4, WMA, FLAC, MP3, Shorten, ATRAC (compression RAR, ZIP, AZW, XZ, BZ2, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M20S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Moliere and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is thrown into disarray when he returns from abroad, a theme that is explored further in the comedy of errors A Three-Dollar Day. In The Rope - regarded by many as the best of Plautus' plays - the shipwreck of a pimp and his slaves leads to the touching reunion of a father and his daughter, while Amphitryo, Plautus's only excursion into divine mythology, offers a cheerful account of how Jupiter became father to Hercules.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Plays, Playscripts, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval
- Download servers: BitShare, Waistra, FileServe, MEGA, Box, Hotfile, Google Drive, Dropbox. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, AZW, XZ, BZ2, DMG
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.68 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x17mm
- Weight: 213g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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