Titus Maccius Plautus

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Noun1.Titus Maccius Plautus - comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC)
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Little is known of the life of Titus Maccius Plautus before he became what Slater describes as "the first professionally self-supporting playwright in the history of world literature" (9), but it seems likely that he was an actor, probably in the Atellan farce, a style of improvised theatre involving stock characters, akin to the commedia dell'arte (Slater 8-9).
Improvisation in La entretenida: tracing the influence of plautus and the Commedia dell'arte on Cervantes
(12) But the programmes had been printed before this intention became clear to the company; so they inserted an additional slip into the programmes, saying "The play 'The Swaggering Soldier' featured in tonight's performance of Flatfoot was written by Titus Maccius Plautus."
Plautus in Twenty-First-Century Australia: Does the Roman Playwright Still Influence People's Identity?
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