Plautus: The Comedies - Volume II (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (Volume 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801850576 ISBN 13: 9780801850578

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals, the plays of Plautus are accessible to a new generation.

Plays and translators:

Volume 1: Amphitryon, Constance Carrier. Miles Gloriosus, Erich Segal. Captivi, Richard Moore. Casina, Richard Beacham. Curculio, Henry Taylor

Volume 2: Rudens, Constance Carrier. Aulularia, Palmer Bovie. Bacchides, James Tatum. Mercator, George Garrett. Truculentus, James Tatum

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'The works of Plautus.' writes Palmer Bovie, 'mark the real beginning of Roman literature.' Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators in a four volume set of all twenty-one surviving comedies of one of Western literature's greatest dramatists.

About the Author:

Poet, novelist, and critic David R. Slavitt has published more than fifty books and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Palmer Bovie has published many translations of classical Roman literature, including The Georgics of Virgil and The Satires and Epistles of Horace.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0801850576
• ISBN 13: 9780801850578
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Slavitt David R., Bovie Palmer