Plautus
Roman comic playwright (c. 254 - 184 BC) · Italy · Writers · Lived 250 BC to 184 BC · aged 66
Plautus is read about 489 times a day, in 67 languages.
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Something wrong?His plays are the oldest complete works of Latin literature we have - which means every Roman comedy that followed, and much of what Shakespeare lifted, runs through him first.
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Plautus 18th century engraving (cropped)_Liber_Chronicarum_(serietitel)%2C_RP-P-2016-49-94-5.jpg?width=1200)
Antonius de Butrio Antonius de butrio juris doctor (titel op object) Liber Chronicarum (serietitel), RP-P-2016-49-94-5
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Drawing, Stage Design, Apollo with Famous Men and Muses, early 19th century (CH 18543425)
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Plautus 18th century engraving
Plautus MDLXXVII
PlautusIn their own words 6
, The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.
You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.
Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !
About this person
Titus Maccius Plautus wrote comedies in Old Latin around 254-184 BC, working in the palliata comoedia tradition that Livius Andronicus had introduced to Roman theater. His scripts are the earliest Latin literary works to survive whole, a rare full window into how Romans actually laughed. The genre he mastered - and the term "Plautine" that now marks his style - would shape comedic structure for centuries. Shakespeare borrowed plots, Molière adapted The Miser from his Aulularia, and the bones of his farces still turn up in modern scripts. He died in 184 BC, leaving behind the scaffolding of Western comedy.
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