(.) In his riper years the acumen exhibited in his handling of prose is also exemplified in his treatment of the text of poets such as Phaedrus and Martial, Seneca and Statius'.
(.) His interest to the textual criticism of Latin poetry was due to the discovery of the Florentine MS of the tragedies of Seneca. 'His editions mark an epoch in the study of Livy, of Seneca, Tacitus & Gellius. He was the successor of Heinsius at the University of Leiden, and was influenced by Vossius, Grotius, Heinsius & Scriverius. This Plautus edition was produced by the Dutch classicist of German origin Johann Friedrich Gronov, or Gronovius, 1611-1671. They offered the 'textus receptus' which was widely accepted, accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists, taken from earlier useful, normative or renewing editions. Popular among scholars and students were the socalled 'Variorum editions'. Schweiger lists 37 editions of the Opera of Plautus for this (17th)century, 15 were published in Germany, 13 in the Netherlands, 5 in Geneva and 4 in France. Plautus was studied however widely in the 17th century at universities throughout Europe.
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The plays were full of immorality, and Plautus' language was too indecent, and too difficult for young boys. Plautus) § At school Plautus was never in fashion. Pseudolus and Miles Gloriosus can be found in the hilarious musical and film A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum (1962) (Source of the quotations: The Classical Tradition, Cambr.
Big Business (1988), inspired by the Menaechmi, tells the story of 2 sets of female twins (Bette Midler & Lily Tomlin) separated at birth. Rodgers and Hart created the music for the Boys from Syracuse (1938). Plautus enjoyes also a new modern life on the screen. Hooft wrote Warenar (1617), an adaptation of Plautus' Aulularia. During the Golden Age of the Netherlands P.C. A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest, they all adapt themes, situations and persons of Plautus. 'Plautine comedy provided Shakespeare with character and action throughout his career, beginning with direct imitation of the Menaechmi with the Comedy of Errors'. English playwrights like Ben Johnson and Shakespeare reworked plays of Plautus. And in France Molière, the greatest comic playwright of his age, imitated Plautus in his Amphitryon and in l'Avare. In Germany the great dramatist Andreas Gryphius adapted the Miles Gloriosus. Authors like Calderón adopted many New Comedy stage conventions to Spanish taste. Spain saw the development of 'comedias elegíacas', Latin verse that incorporated Plautine passages into dialogue. Probably best known is Carlo Goldoni's adaptation of the Menaechmi (1748) 'I duo gemelli veneziani' (The Venetian Twins). The Italian 'commedia erudita' and the popular improvisatory 'commedia dell'arte' developed through imitations of the Roman New Comedy. Ever since the first post-classical performances at the end of the 15th century Plautus never left the stage.
'Plautine comedy is inventive, exuberant, varied, full of rollicking eavesdropping scenes, lyrical meters, slapstick, and verbal fireworks.' Early editors, commentators and translators ransacked the plays for rhetorical and moral examples. The comedies feature stock situations and characters from everyday life. Plautus' influence on world literature is huge. 254-184 B.C., have never been out of fashion since the publication of the 'editio princeps' in 1472. Lower margin of the second half partly and very faintly waterstained) ( Note: The 21 surviving comedies of the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, ca. Small hole in blank lower margin of the second leaf. Titlepage cut out, and mounted on blank flyleaf expertly, with removal of the blank margins. Commentary in 2 columns beneath the text) ( Condition: Binding scuffed and scratched. 477 Graesse 5,329 Ebert 17202) ( Details: Gilt back with 5 raised bands. and his own sagacious conjectures, has improved the text in many places, and given some ingenious and successful explanations of difficult passages' Moss 2,461/2 Fabricius/Ernesti 1,21 Neue Pauly, Supplement Band 2, Geschichte der antiken Texte, Darmstadt 2007, p. Calf 20.5 cm ( Ref: STCN ppn 840013841 Schweiger 2,766 Dibdin 2,312: 'Gronovius by the assistance of 6 ancient MSS. Batavorum), Ex officina Hackiana, 1664.Ĩvo. Accedit commentarius ex Variorum notis & observationibus.
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