Four Comedies - Oxford World's Classics

Including The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, and The Pot of Gold. Plautus was the greatest single influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humour and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an undisputed genius...