Sunday, September 21, 2014

Plautus

Personally I preferred the Braggart Soldier.  While the two plays had many similarities, the Braggart Soldier contains the wily and conniving character of Palaestro.  Palaestro is the manipulative slave I can truly identify with.  He's playful, often complimenting friend and enemy alike.  He has a lot of people working for him.  He's the one with all the plans and the intro that rhymes, though how do you make something from another language rhyme in English?  Casina lacks a true equivalent to him so I personally feel it is inferior.

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