Plautus Pot Of Gold
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Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five plays: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus), and Pseudolus.
Published September 30th 1965 by Penguin Classics (first published -195)
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Sep 24, 2014David Sarkies rated it
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A farcical collection of Roman comedies
10 November 2014
Okay, I have made comments on all of the plays in this book, but I wanted to spend a little time looking at the collection as a whole. As I have said time and time again, the difficulty that I have with reading plays is that they are designed to be performed, so when I read them I don't get the same pace and tone as a good actor would produce, and the characters are little more than names on a piece of paper. Also, it is a real shame that t..more
10 November 2014
Okay, I have made comments on all of the plays in this book, but I wanted to spend a little time looking at the collection as a whole. As I have said time and time again, the difficulty that I have with reading plays is that they are designed to be performed, so when I read them I don't get the same pace and tone as a good actor would produce, and the characters are little more than names on a piece of paper. Also, it is a real shame that t..more
Mar 11, 2013Simon Mcleish rated it liked it
Originally published on my blog here in May 2009.
What makes a 'perfect comedy'? The German critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing described one of the plays in this volume, Captivi (The Prisoners) as such, but it is unlikely to be an answer that would occur to many people asked this question today. Even if the field is restricted to stage comedies on the grounds that Lessing lived before the invention of moving pictures (ruling out such contenders as Some Like it Hot and Fawlty Towers), there are many..more
What makes a 'perfect comedy'? The German critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing described one of the plays in this volume, Captivi (The Prisoners) as such, but it is unlikely to be an answer that would occur to many people asked this question today. Even if the field is restricted to stage comedies on the grounds that Lessing lived before the invention of moving pictures (ruling out such contenders as Some Like it Hot and Fawlty Towers), there are many..more
Some two thousand two hundred-year-old jokes come over better than others. The translation is into slightly unexpected 1960s colloquial British.
Feb 04, 2011Tony rated it liked it
26. Plautus. THE POT OF GOLD AND OTHER PLAYS. ***. Plautus was born in Umbria in ca. 254 B.C. He was originally named Titus, after his father, but later acquired two additional nicknames that stuck: Maccius, perhaps the name of a clown in popular farce, and Plautus, meaning flat-footed. His full name, then, is Titus Maccius Plautus. He was a popular playwright of his time who also studied Greek drama and translated many of the Greek plays into Latin. This collection, translated and annotated by..more
Jul 13, 2010Tara Calaby rated it really liked it
My trouble with Roman comedy and Greek New Comedy is that I always want it to be Aristophanes and, of course, it isn't. That said, I enjoy Plautus far more than Menander (although admittedly I haven't read anything by the latter for about a decade).
This collection contains five plays:
* The Pot of Gold (probably the weakest, although this is partially due to its unfinished state)
* The Prisoners (an interesting look at masters and slaves)
* The Brothers Menaechmus (my favourite: a comedy of mistak..more
This collection contains five plays:
* The Pot of Gold (probably the weakest, although this is partially due to its unfinished state)
* The Prisoners (an interesting look at masters and slaves)
* The Brothers Menaechmus (my favourite: a comedy of mistak..more
Read Plautus in this collection. Translation was fine
Jun 25, 2010Tasha rated it liked it
Twins, mistaken identities, mistresses, slaves, etc. Great lines about a lobster. Very ridiculous.
Who would have thought that such brilliance existed before Shakespere..definitely not me
Apr 13, 2018Sara rated it really liked it
I have always said I am not a comedy person but give me comedy like this and I am there.
As I read all these Greek and Roman comedies, I find myself wondering if I find them funny just ‘cause I’m a sick, twisted English major. I remember my freshman year of high school, I was reading Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare in my English class and my teacher would talk about how hilarious it was and we would all just stare at her like she was crazy. Well, I assure you that, while my Literaturitis (my neologism for the day: lit “inflammation of the literature;” the madness possessing bib..more
Plautus follows one of John Cleese's rules - make a vulgar situation like an angry argument funnier with the use of complicated language. But adapting the stereotypes of Greek New Comedy seems to have been a burden to Plautus: you can sense he's bursting at the seams of his aesthetics, pining for the freedom of an Aristophanes, but the strictures enforced by a Roman audience force Plautus into intricately woven ironies - in Captivi, for instance, master and slave reverse roles while both being s..more
Feb 18, 2014Matthew Lowery rated it liked it · review of another edition
Funny in places but particularly bland when compared to Aristophanes. The jokes generally elicit a chuckle at best but consistently so at least. There's no sense of danger at all, no sense that Plautus is trying something risky or which might have the potential to offend. There's no political side to his plays either. Plautus really doesn't have much in the way of didacticism to offer his audience other than perhaps 'Don't be arrogant.' A particularly safe brand of comedy. The characters are tot..more
I would classify Plautus as the writer of farces. For most of his works that I’ve read, they involve extravagant mistaken identities, unbelievable coincidences, and, of course, lost twins. While some plays, like The Prisoners, touch on the meaning of freedom, most feature stock characters (the clever slave, the boasting general, the lovelorn youth). The stage action consists of silliness, slap stick, punning and general mayhem.
It’s not great literature, but it is entertaining theatre, well targe..more
Nov 27, 2015Aleta rated it it was amazing · review of another editionIt’s not great literature, but it is entertaining theatre, well targe..more
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Read 'Miles Gloriosus' (here called 'The Swaggering Soldier', in other versions 'The Braggart Soldier') for a university class.
I found it much funnier than Aristophanes, who's a bit too vulgar for my taste, and also easier to follow as the amount of references to contemporary society and it's figureheads are much fewer. All in all a very entertaining 'fluff' play, that will make you laugh and is a good place to start if you want to read more ancient literature, but don't know much about the tim..more
I found it much funnier than Aristophanes, who's a bit too vulgar for my taste, and also easier to follow as the amount of references to contemporary society and it's figureheads are much fewer. All in all a very entertaining 'fluff' play, that will make you laugh and is a good place to start if you want to read more ancient literature, but don't know much about the tim..more
Oct 14, 2016Matthew Dambro rated it really liked it
Lovely book of Roman farces. It is t Plautus was a freedman, his depiction of slaves in his plays are the best characterizations. It could be simply a Roman or Greek technique to give the slave the best lines. Theses are wonderful to read even in translation. People have not changed much in 2000 years.
Jan 25, 2013Jonas Dornelles rated it liked it
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I only read two of them: 'Pot of Gold' (Aulularia) and 'The Swaggering Soldier'.
it reminds me a lot of television gross humor of this days, which means that did not had any evolution since Roman Republic in this low-wit kind of comedy.
it reminds me a lot of television gross humor of this days, which means that did not had any evolution since Roman Republic in this low-wit kind of comedy.
Oct 11, 2013Brianna Marie rated it really liked it
I tried to space out each play so I didn't confuse them, so I ended up spending a lot more time on this than I originally intended. Overall, I thought some of them were really funny, and even the ones I liked the least still were able to get a couple chuckles out of me.
Nov 26, 2007Heather Moore rated it liked it
The plays are really good. I would love to see them being performed, but I don't care too much for the translation. It is fine for younger readers who want to hear the old Roman plays in an easy to understand diction, but really I don't feel as though the Latin was well perserved.
The Swaggering Soldier was my last text for my A level Ancient Comedy course! I definitely would say I prefer the Greek plays but the two roman ones I read were definitely more challenging. Will definitely read some more of these in the future.
May 07, 2015Peregrine rated it liked it
Read Miles Glorialius (I know I spelled that wrong but can't be bothered to look it up) and Pseudolus (pretty sure that one's wrong too). Didn't like the first one, found the second one to be okay. Very different from Aristophanes, which is all we've read for the past 5 weeks.
Read in its original form..naturally.
The Kindle version of this Penguin Classics book is full of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) typos, like 'dungs' for 'things', 'Unes' for 'Lines'. Don't publishers use proofreaders any more?
Jul 03, 2010l. rated it really liked it
I read Terrence and despaired of Roman comedy, but this is quite good!
Apr 20, 2015Nathan Bissett rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Incredibly funny plays translated into English masterfully. As always, sadly, there is some stuff lost in translation.
Only read pot of gold
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The fun part about Plautus is his plays are about the common man (fool) and easy to relate to, even today. Included the Swaggering Soldier, one of his best plays.
The comic slave..some fun back-and-forth jokes in here.
'Contempt of mind and sound sleep is more precious than a thousand pots of gold.' Message is clear.
Feb 26, 2014Charlotte Mercille rated it really liked it
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Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest works in Latin literature to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced b..more
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Plautus's broad humor, shown in some of the earliest surviving Latin plays, reflects Roman manners and contemporary life. This briliant collection includes: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus), and Pseudolus.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.