Titus Maccius Plautus

Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money


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Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago…

Pseudolus: or, The Cheat


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About two dozen comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus have survived the years, with many of them ending up rewritten and recast by other …

Miles Gloriosus; The Braggart Captain


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Pleusicles loves Philocomasium, but she is kidnapped by Pyrgopolinices. Palaestrio, faithful servant to Pleusicles, witnesses this and goes …

Menaechmi; or, The Twin Brothers


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Menaechimus was carried away as a child to Epidamnus. Years later his twin-brother arrives also in Epidamnus, where because of his resemblan…

Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed


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"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. They are married to two brothers, Epi…

Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters


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Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus a…

Asinaria; or, The Ass-Dealer


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Another Plautus comedy. Not too complicated: People behaving poorly, clever slaves aiding complicated plots, gullible tradesman (the Ass-Dea…

The Captives


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Though with some of Plautus's usual comic elements (including people in disguise, clever servant, etc), this is a rare serious play by him …

Aulularia; or, The Concealed Treasure


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Euclio, a miserly old Athenian, has discovered a pot of gold in his house, Afraid it will be found and taken, he watches with the greatest a…

Amphitryon; or, Jupiter in Disguise


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The gods Jupiter and Mercury take the forms of Amphitryon and Sosia to visit Alcmena just before her husband Amphitryon returns from the war…

Curculio; or, The Forgery


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A con game movie script, circa 200 BCE. "Phaedromus is desperately in love with Planesium, who is in the possession of Cappadox, an ava…

Rudens; or The Fisherman's Rope


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A comedy - although with human trafficking. Also a tempest, a shipwreck or two (described by the actors but invisible to the audience - and…

Mercator; The Merchant


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Unaware that the woman Pasicompsa is his son's mistress, since the son says that he has brought her home to be his mother's attendant, an ag…