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 | The Plays and Fragments (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by Maurice Balme (Translator), Peter Brown (Introduction), Peter Brown Menander, Maurice Balme Menander, Professor Peter Brown, M. G. Balme Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-954073-X / 019954073X ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954073-0 / 9780199540730 Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred play | |