Sunday 1 March 2009

The Rope - Plautus * * *

While not as funny as the previous play 'The Ghost' I still found this an enjoyable romp with the Greeks, as a pair of shipwrecked whores are washed up on the shore next to the temple of Venus after being kidnappd from Athena by a pimp,however they are unaware that their former master has also been washed up alive and well...
This kind of storyline makes it almost impossible to believe that Plautus was writng such a long time ago, for he still maintains a certain modernism and humour to his work today!


Started 1st March
Finished 1st March

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