Abstract. Plautus’ Amphitruo was not only successful in ancient times, but has been largely imitated in following literatures, both ancients and moderns. A special attention deserves Molière’s Amphitryon, not the first French version, but doubtless the most important. The paper compares the Latin text with the French one and highlights similarities and differences in themes – particularly the double theme -, structure, characters and stage effects (metatheatre). While closely following the main outline of the Plautine story, Molière introduces some significant innovations, in order to create a brilliant and lively comedy, well suited to the taste and conventions of the French theatre of his age. L’ Amphitruo di Plauto ebbe grande success...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
The presence of ancient comedies on stage, during a period when vernacular language appeared as the ...
The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–1...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
Plautus’ "Amphitruo" and Molière’s adaptation are divine burlesque plays that depict surreal scenes ...
In Plautus’ theatre, words were literally brought to life in a performative system of masks, music a...
The fact is well known that Plautus translated plays by Menander and other poets of the « New Comedy...
The fact is well known that Plautus translated plays by Menander and other poets of the « New Comedy...
Plautus’ theatre still occupies a remarkable place within contemporary culture, mostly for its sceni...
This brief text analyzes the ambiguities present in the play Amphitruo, by the Roman author Plauto, ...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
The presence of ancient comedies on stage, during a period when vernacular language appeared as the ...
The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–1...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
We know very little about Greek models that have inspired Plautus, Terentius and other poets of the ...
Plautus’ "Amphitruo" and Molière’s adaptation are divine burlesque plays that depict surreal scenes ...
In Plautus’ theatre, words were literally brought to life in a performative system of masks, music a...
The fact is well known that Plautus translated plays by Menander and other poets of the « New Comedy...
The fact is well known that Plautus translated plays by Menander and other poets of the « New Comedy...
Plautus’ theatre still occupies a remarkable place within contemporary culture, mostly for its sceni...
This brief text analyzes the ambiguities present in the play Amphitruo, by the Roman author Plauto, ...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
Aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Plaute et Térence furent considérés comme les maîtres de la langue latine...
The presence of ancient comedies on stage, during a period when vernacular language appeared as the ...