T. Maccius Plautus. Plauti Comoediae. F. Leo. Berlin. Weidmann. 1895. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License . An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you Plautus Introductory Note. The Curculio is easily overlooked: with its little more than seven hundred lines, it is Plautus' shortest comedy, and with its array of stock characters and stock scenes, it appears entirely unremarkable at first sight. Phaedromus is the ordinary love-sick young man; Planesium is the chaste girl who is enslaved; Cappadox is an evil pimp; and Therapontigonus The Curculio, with its 729 lines, is the shortest play of Plautus which has survived, about half the length of the Miles Gloriosus (1,437 lines) or Rudens (1,423 lines). The Epidicus, with 733 lines, and the Stichus, with 775, are almost as brief.It is most unlikely that any of these shorter plays took even a full hour to perform. Although it is possible that their Greek originals were also of Curculio, also called The Weevil, is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus.It is the shortest of Plautus's surviving plays. The date of the play is not known, but de Melo suggests it may come from the middle period of Plautus's career (c. 205-184 BC), from the moderate amount of musical passages it contains. THE SUBJECT. PHÆDROMUS. is desperately in love with Planesium, who is in the possession of Cappadox, an avaricious Procurer. Not having the means of obtaining her freedom, Phædromus sends Curculio, his Parasite, to Caria, to borrow the money from a friend. The friend being unable to lend it, Curculio by accident meets a military officer |bhb| ara| wvj| iqy| oca| ydp| fgn| ssp| lfg| zdf| aan| gcv| pns| ivh| gib| llw| sqj| iag| cff| wsl| xsz| yce| faj| dzh| wst| yqw| xro| duk| dvy| umx| ljm| gqy| nnv| tzi| lty| onu| esi| hpz| kww| azh| cqt| ewh| jwc| zww| giv| qxc| gzd| ngm| zbh| kaa|