![]() ![]() appearance of some of Plautus characters, notably Alcumena in Amphitruo. He also helped to establish an array of Stock Characters, including the Nice Young Man and Girl, the Nice Young Man's slightly racier Best Friend, the Rival (who is often a Boastful Soldier), the Parasite who lives off him and makes sarcastic remarks behind his back, the Henpecked Husband, the uptight, domineering Matron, and the Clever Servant who manages his master's affairs, that have been common (with variations) in comedy ever since. the Menaechmi and Amphitruo, were unusual Plautine plays in that they all had. With his fellow playwright, Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), he popularized the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" plot, typical of the Greek "New Comedy," that has been perhaps the most common dramatic structure in Western drama ever since. ![]() Imitating most of his plots from the Greek playwright Menander, he gave them a distinctly Roman feel, despite the fact that (in order to escape the charge of "slandering the Roman People and State") he put his characters in the Paper-Thin Disguise of Greek names. 254≡84 BC) was a Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period. Chrysalus the Slave, in Plautus's Bacchidæ Menaechmi is a broad farce that makes use of the comic possibilities of mistaken identity. ![]()
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