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 | Four Comedies : The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics) (Updated Edition) by Titus Maccius Plautus, Erich Segal (Translator) Plautus, Erich Segal (Editor) Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-19-283896-2 / 0192838962 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283896-4 / 9780192838964 Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Molière's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humour, and irreverent characterization | |