Plautus Truculentus
184 B.C.) was a Roman writer. His theatrical genius, vitality, farcical humor, and control of the Latin language rank him as Rome's greatest comic playwright. During the 3d century B.C., Roman writers began to imitate the forms and contents of Greek literature. Titus Maccius Plautus (/ ˈ p l ɔː t ə s /; c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to.
Plautus Truculentus
Plautus Truculentus
Plautus, Truculentus 775-853 In this scene, Callicles interrogates his own slave and the slave of Phronesium, the prostitute next door, in an attempt to find out the identity of the man who impregnated his unwed daughter, and learn the location of the missing baby. Diniarchus, that very man—and the lover of Phronesium—nervously awaits his inevitable exposure. Version 2: performed in Latin, sung to music composed by T. Gellar-Goad; performance modeled on the mid-twentieth-century melodrama version in English. Clarinet: Tony Sprinkle. Director: Laura Lippman.