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The greatest writer of comedies , which also entitles him to be considered the chief Roman dramatist , was Titus Maccius Plautus , born in 254 B.C. As a young man he came to Rome from the province of Umbria . As an actor he became well ...
The greatest writer of comedies , which also entitles him to be considered the chief Roman dramatist , was Titus Maccius Plautus , born in 254 B.C. As a young man he came to Rome from the province of Umbria . As an actor he became well ...
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Jerome Kern's lovely and popular song " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " has its idea anticipated in another of Plautus ' plays when two lovers have been reunited . " This lady you're hugging isn't smoke , is she ? " " Smoke ? Why so ?
Jerome Kern's lovely and popular song " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " has its idea anticipated in another of Plautus ' plays when two lovers have been reunited . " This lady you're hugging isn't smoke , is she ? " " Smoke ? Why so ?
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In all , Plautus wrote some hundred and thirty comedies of which only twenty - one have survived . One of them , Menaechmi , was the immediate source of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors , about separated twins who are reunited in ...
In all , Plautus wrote some hundred and thirty comedies of which only twenty - one have survived . One of them , Menaechmi , was the immediate source of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors , about separated twins who are reunited in ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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