Plautus Comedy
Plautus And Terence Comedy
254-184 BCE) And it conforms with other data ascertainable about Plautus from his drama: his taste for puns and broad comedy, his love of song and dance, his mockery of the upper classes and his strong ties to Atellan farce—he may even have been trained as a performer in that genre.
Life Little is known for certain about the life and personality of Plautus, who ranks with as one of the two great Roman comic dramatists. His work, moreover, presents scholars with a variety of textual problems, since the manuscripts by which his plays survive are corrupt and sometimes incomplete.
Nevertheless, his literary and dramatic skills make his plays enjoyable in their own right, while the achievement of his comic genius has had lasting significance in the history of. According to the grammarian (2nd or 3rd century ce), Plautus was born in northeastern central. His customarily assigned birth and death dates are largely based on statements made by later Latin writers, notably in the 1st century bce. Even the three names usually given to him—Titus Maccius Plautus—are of questionable historical authenticity. Internal evidence in some of the plays does, it is true, suggest that these were the names of their author, but it is possible that they are stage names, even theatrical jokes.