PLAUTUS: CASINA Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 1976

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Year of publication

1976

Author

Plautus, W. Thomas Maccary & M. M. Willcock (Eds. )

Publishers

Cambridge University Press

Keyword

Plautus Plays & Drama Latin Literature Classical Greek & Roman

Cover description

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0521210410

Description

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear to DJ. Light foxing to prelims. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 241 pages; Plautus' Casina is a lively and well composed farce. The plot, which concerns the competition of a father and his son for the same girl and the various scurrilous tricks employed in the process, gives full scope to Plautus' inventiveness and richly comic language. The editors' aim is to establish the play as one of the liveliest of ancient comedies, and in their introduction and notes to make the reader continually aware of the conditions of an actual stage performance. They discuss the background and conventions of Roman comedy and by offering a complete metrical analysis they help the reader to appreciate the original musical structure of the play. The edition is intended primarily for use by students at school and university but will be of value to anyone interested in reading the play in the original.