Description: The speakable, performable scripts, along with Tatum's introduction, notes, and critical essays summarizing his own experiences in producing them, make this a gold mine for troupes wishing to produce these classics on the contemporary stage as well as for students of classical drama.
Brief description: David R. Slavitt is a poet, translator, novelist, critic, and journalist. He is author of more than seventy works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation.
Review Quotes: This is an excellent text for students of Roman antiquity. More important, it supplies the standard dramatic repertoire with three remarkable, offbeat comedies, capable of successful production by companies of all degrees of competence. It also enables Plautus (perhaps forces him) to be taken seriously by drama critics and theorists. These are no small achievements--this volume is some considerable cuts above your basic anthology.
--Douglass Parker