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Plau·tus

(plô′təs), Titus Maccius 254?-184 bc.

Roman comic playwright whose works influenced Shakespeare and Molière.

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Plautus

(ˈplɔːtəs)

(Biography) Titus Maccius (ˈtaɪtəs ˈmæksɪəs). ?254–?184 bc, Roman comic dramatist. His 21 extant works, adapted from Greek plays, esp those by Menander, include Menaechmi (the basis of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors), Miles Gloriosus, Rudens, and Captivi

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Plau•tus

(ˈplɔ təs)

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Titus Maccius, c254–c184 B.C., Roman playwright.

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Noun	1.	Plautus - comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC) Titus Maccius Plautus
	2.	Plautus - a genus of Alcidae genus Plautus bird genus - a genus of birds Alcidae, family Alcidae - web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc. dovekie, little auk, Plautus alle - small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions

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Plautus

[ˈplɔːtəs] n → Plauto

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Nevertheless, we are sparing nothing for the sake of getting at the truth; he is already thoroughly dislocated, we are applying all the herbs of Saint John's day; as saith the old comedian Plautus,--

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Shortly after the middle of the century, probably, the head-master of Westminister School, Nicholas Udall, took the further step of writing for his boys on the classical model an original farce-comedy, the amusing 'Ralph Roister Doister.' This play is so close a copy of Plautus' 'Miles Gloriosus' and Terence's 'Eunuchus' that there is little that is really English about it; a much larger element of local realism of the traditional English sort, in a classical framework, was presented in the coarse but really skillful

Meanwhile students at the universities, also, had been acting Plautus and Terence, and further, had been writing and acting Latin tragedies, as well as comedies, of their own composition.

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there were Naevius, and Andronicus, and Plautus, and Terentius.

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This 1962 Tony Award-winning musical has an impressive pedigree: an ingenious early score by Stephen Sondheim ("Sweeney Todd," "Into the Woods"), plus a zany burlesque-style script by Larry Gelbart ("M*A*S*H," "Tootsie") and Burt Shevelove ("No, No Nannette") inspired by the ancient Roman comedies of Plautus.

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Witzke's "'I knew I had a brother!': Fraternity and Identity in Plautus's Menaechmi and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest" asserts that Plautus's play and Wilde's play are "rarely considered together" (321).

The Classic Genius of Oscar Wilde

This study guide/supplementary text on Roman playwright Plautus and his comedy Casina is intended for students with no knowledge of Latin.

Plautus: Casina

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words." - Plautus

Quotes To Celebrate National Wine Day

Once he studied the history of comic literature, he realised that his Glaswegian wide boy owed a lot to the ancient Roman playwright Plautus.

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We encounter it first in Plautus's Amphitryon and then in Moliere's, Dryden's, and Kleist's respective Amphitryons, as well as (in a somewhat different form) in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

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The Radio Times described it as "loosely based on the musical A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and the works of Roman playwright Plautus".

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