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Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by Erich (Translator) Plautus/ Segal, Titus Maccius Plautus, Erich Segal (Editor) Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-954056-X / 019954056X ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954056-3 / 9780199540563 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 characterizatio |