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Casina
Plautus' Casina is a lively and well composed farce. The plot, which concerns the competition of a father and his son for the same girl and the various scurrilous tricks employed in the process, gives full scope to Plautus' inventiveness and richly comic language. The editors' aim is to establish the play as one of the liveliest of ancient comedies, and in their introduction and notes to make the reader continually aware of the conditions of an actual stage performance. They discuss the background and conventions of Roman comedy and by offering a complete metrical analysis they help the reader to appreciate the original musical structure of the play. The edition is intended primarily for use by students at school and university but will be of value to anyone interested in reading the play in the original.
241 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 187
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Plautus
1,880books112followersTitus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 � 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest works in Latin literature to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.
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February 8, 2025
felt like i was on drugs the entire time
January 19, 2024
Naczytałam się znakomitych greckich dramatów i zderzenie z komedią rzymską było przykre :')
March 9, 2021
A wife gets the better of her randy roving husband.
April 2, 2025
Empieza muy mal y el desarrollo mehhh, le daría un 2, pero el final es buenísimo y no me lo esperaba
Not bad, not bad
Not bad, not bad
January 17, 2025
A very funny Roman play.
April 3, 2025
Desarrollo bastante meh, pero me ha hecho gracia el final y que Cásina sea como Pepe el romano.
Just 2 estrellas (que me perdone Plauto) porque no es lo mejorcito que ha hecho, sed est bene.
Just 2 estrellas (que me perdone Plauto) porque no es lo mejorcito que ha hecho, sed est bene.
January 6, 2025
2.5⭐️
March 13, 2025
Bastante graciosa, muchas bromas fálicas, es un enredo entretenido que va al foco de la comedia: hacer reír.
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July 27, 2011the translation i read was called "a funny thing happened on the way to the wedding." as i understood it, there should be a lot of slapstick physical comedy that just didn't translate onto the page, so reading it was kinda "meh"
March 2, 2023
so esoteric, so arcane. she's not like other girls. she reads latin classics while daydreaming about the secret history.
January 25, 2025
Mi teatro favorito de Plato. La rivalidad entre los esclavos es lo mejor que hay, Olimpión especialmente es maravilloso. He visto a gente quejarse de que no es una lectura seria, lo cual no entiendo porque es una comedia y no dice que esa sea su intención en ningún momento, pero en fin.
Lo más homoerótico que he leído en mucho tiempo. Irónicamente las bromas sobre homosexualidad e infidelidad son mejores en la antigua Roma que en la actualidad. Gracias profesora de latín por tanto.
Lo más homoerótico que he leído en mucho tiempo. Irónicamente las bromas sobre homosexualidad e infidelidad son mejores en la antigua Roma que en la actualidad. Gracias profesora de latín por tanto.
February 11, 2025
Apenas un par de horas para leer esta comedia que realmente es graciosa. Con ese final tan� precipitado y si entender como Cleóstrata puede acceder a lo que hace al final.
Si cumplo el reto lector este año va a ser porque me voy a meter pal cuerpo todas las comedias de Plauto y Terencio.
Si cumplo el reto lector este año va a ser porque me voy a meter pal cuerpo todas las comedias de Plauto y Terencio.
January 1, 2021
read for HIST 3061
February 3, 2022
Far more breaking of the fourth wall and dick jokes than I thought would ever appear in a play written in 185 B.C.
May 15, 2022
Ha sido lo más gay y #killallmen que he leído en mi vida. Gracias profesor de latín por tanto y perdón por tan poco.
March 6, 2023
La he leído y visto representada. Debo decir que ver la obra representada es muchísimo mejor que leerla 🤌🏻 pero eso no quita que leída también sea graciosa jsjdj
July 12, 2023
mi edición era de 30 carillas...
December 19, 2023
Cleustrata cambia d marido xfa
January 3, 2024
Casi da risa
February 15, 2024
what a wild ride
June 28, 2024
Una comedia sobre el patriarcado y la homofobia latina
August 26, 2024
read for en2209 ancient rome!
lysidamus is a diabolical bisexual man. and the bit about casina's enormous sword was hilarious.
lysidamus is a diabolical bisexual man. and the bit about casina's enormous sword was hilarious.
February 5, 2017
Comedia latina que he leído como parte de la asignatura "La Cultura Grecolatina a través de sus textos literarios". La obra gira alrededor de una chica, Cásina, que sin embargo no interviene en ningún momento, y los deseos de diferentes personajes de casarla. Es una obra muy breve y que se lee con rapidez.
February 11, 2017
After having read whole greek comedy (which unfortunately nowadays contains only twelve plays ) I jumped to the Roman one with great expectations.
Oh boy what a dissapointment. Casina seems quite modern. If someone took Casina, put it before me and tell me that it was written in Renesance I would believe him. It has quite well work-out story with nice premise. But it is just simply a boring piece to read.
I feel like the New Comedy stripped Old Comedy from everything that was good about it and now we have just some story (which is once again quite sophisticated but from point of view of modern reader nothing unusual) full of stock characters telling jokes that are just not funny.
Oh boy what a dissapointment. Casina seems quite modern. If someone took Casina, put it before me and tell me that it was written in Renesance I would believe him. It has quite well work-out story with nice premise. But it is just simply a boring piece to read.
I feel like the New Comedy stripped Old Comedy from everything that was good about it and now we have just some story (which is once again quite sophisticated but from point of view of modern reader nothing unusual) full of stock characters telling jokes that are just not funny.
June 17, 2014
Siempre he sido más lectora de clásicos griegos que latinos. He leído algunas tragedias griegas clásicas y comedias de Aristófanes pero ésta ha sido la primera comedia latina que he tenido entre mis manos y lo cierto es que es muy divertida, muy fácil de leer, nada de descripciones farragosas ni diálogos altisonantes evocando a los dioses. Una edición muy cuidada, aunque personalmente prefiero el final que el mismo Plauto dio a su obra.
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February 10, 2021Dilimize Nurullah Ataç tarafından orjinal dilinden değil; Fransızca'dan çevirilen bu kitabın 1965-İstanbul ikinci baskısını okudum. Fazla sayıda olduğu için göze çarpan yazım hatalarını bir kenara bırakırsak; Plautus'un ilk okuduğum tiyatrosu İkizler'in yanında daha sönük kaldığını söyleyebilirim.
April 23, 2020
A sex maniac pater familias, lots of phallic jokes, a he-bride and an ever absent protagonist that ends up marrying an equally absent bridegroom. Maybe the funniest of Roman comedies I've read until now.
February 4, 2016
Read in Latin Survey and really enjoyed discussing it in class. Hilarious, but also very (very) obscene.
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