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Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: University Press of America
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Language: en
Pages: 580
Pages: 580
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Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Molière's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984-12 - Publisher: Bantam Classics
Language: en
Pages: 436
Pages: 436
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-12 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing
"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Pla