![]() ![]() While I loved Shakespearean nature (can I say this, considering the fact that the Bard wasn’t born for another 1700 years?) of The Menaechmi, I have to agree with the play’s translator: Comedies of Cunning are infinitely funnier than Comedies of Ignorance (which is probably why Plautus wrote so many of the former). While I loved Shakespearean nature In the introduction to Plautus’ The Brothers Menaechmus, the translator Erich Segal describes how, in the collection of Plautine comedy, The Menaechmi stands out as one of the playwright’s only “Comedies of Ignorance.” The majorities of Plautus’ extant works create laughs through their focus on scheming slaves-lovably cunning servants who drive the plays’ cruel farce-rather than bumbling stock characters, enmeshed in the chaos of a common point of confusion. In the introduction to Plautus’ The Brothers Menaechmus, the translator Erich Segal describes how, in the collection of Plautine comedy, The Menaechmi stands out as one of the playwright’s only “Comedies of Ignorance.” The majorities of Plautus’ extant works create laughs through their focus on scheming slaves-lovably cunning servants who drive the plays’ cruel farce-rather than bumbling stock characters, enmeshed in the chaos of a common point of confusion. ![]()
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