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Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus (254 - 184 BC)

Plautus: Adapting New Comedy for the Roman Stage

Titus Maccius Plautus was one of ancient Rome's greatest playwrights.

He was born in Sarsina, Umbria in about 254 BC. Little is known about his life, but it is believed that he worked as a stage carpenter as a young man. Plautus eventually went into business as a merchant shipper and, as far as is known, worked as a miller's labourer after his venture collapsed.

He studied Greek drama in his spare time and, from the age of forty onwards, achieved increasing success as an adaptor of Greek comedies for the Roman stage.

Plautus' plays were mainly derived from Greek works belonging to the New Comedy Style. New Comedy plays were essentially social comedies of manners, usually featuring the domestic life of the middle and upper classes. They were very "clean" compared to plays from the Greek Old Comedy genre which commonly used vulgar expressions and jokes - Aristophanes' plays being a case in point.

Another typical characteristic of New Comedy was the generalised use of stock charact

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Plautus, or Titus Maccius Plautus, was one of the most famous of the Roman comedic playwrights. Not much is known about him; ancient sources that described his early career as a stagehand, his bankruptcy, and his time working in a mill have now been discredited.

Plautus may have been born around 254 BCE in Sarsina, a mountain village in the Apennines of Umbria. His name means “splay-foot/flatfoot.” He may have become a Roman soldier, which is where he may have been exposed to Greek theater.

Plautus has twenty complete surviving plays and fragments from several other works. Some of his most famous works include Bacchides, Persa, Amphitruo, Epidicus, Rudens, and the Brothers Menaechmi. These plays are adaptations of 4th century BCE Greek New Comedy, but Plautus expanded the roles of stock characters, stretched plots to implausibility, and frequently used wordplay and puns. He tended to focus on lower- and middle-class life.

His plays remained popular after his death and are credited with influencing Euro

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Plautus

Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC)

For the Roman noble, see Rubellius Plautus. For the genus also known as Pinguinus, see Great auk.

Titus Maccius Plautus^[1] (PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine (PLAW-tyne) refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.

Biography

Not much is known about Titus Maccius Plautus's early life. It is believed that he was born in Sarsina, a small town in Emilia Romagna in northern Italy, around 254 BC.^[2] According to Morris Marples, Plautus worked as a stage-carpenter or scene-shifter in his early years.^[3] It is from this work, perhaps, that his love of the theater originated. His acting talent was eventually discovered; and he adopted the nomen "Maccius" (from Maccus, a clownish stock character in Atellan Farc