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Rudens
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Rudens is a play by Roman author Plautus. Its name translates from Latin as "The Rope;" in English translation it has been called The Shipwreck or '''''The Fisherman's Rope'''''. It is a Roman comedy, which describes how a girl, Palaestra, stolen from her parents by pirates, is reunited with her father, Daemones, ironically, by means of her pimp, Labrax. The play is set on the coast of Cyrene, in north Africa, although the characters come from a range of cities around the Mediterranean, most notably, Athens.
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- Author
- Titus Maccius Plautus
- First published
- 1789
- Editions
- 32
- Subjects
- Criticism and interpretation, Translations into Spanish, Translations, Versification, Drama, Latin drama, Latin drama (Comedy), Philosophy, ancient
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Key facts
- Play.name
- Rudens
- Play.image
- Caradosso, scena della Gomena di Plauto, 1485 circa.JPG
- Play.caption
- Scene from Rudens (Cristoforo Foppa, c. 1485)
- Play.writer
- Plautus
- Play.orig_lang
- Latin
- Play.characters
- Arcturus (the star-god)DaemonesSceparnio (Daemones' slave)PlesidippusTrachalio (Plesidippus' slave)Palaestra (Labrax's prostitute)Ampelisca (Labrax's prostitute)Labrax (pimp)Charmides (Labrax's friend)Piscatores (fishermen)Ptolemocratia (priestess)Turbalio (Daemones' slave)Sparax (Daemones' slave)Gripus (Daemones' slave)
- Play.place
- Rome?
- Play.genre
- Roman comedy
- Play.setting
- the coast of Cyrene
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24 sectionsContents
- The story
- The scene
- Prologue
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Act 5
- Two plays in one?
- Metrical structure
- The girls escape from the sea
- Labrax discovers the girls
- Daemones rescues the girls
- Daemones recognises his daughter
- Trachalio begs his freedom
- Gripus and Ampelisca are freed
- Modern versions
- "A-21"
- ''The Storm''
- ''Tug of War''
- Translations
- Editions
- References
- External links
Rudens is a play by Roman author Plautus. Its name translates from Latin as "The Rope;" in English translation it has been called The Shipwreck or '''''The Fisherman's Rope'''''. It is a Roman comedy, which describes how a girl, Palaestra, stolen from her parents by pirates, is reunited with her father, Daemones, ironically, by means of her pimp, Labrax. The play is set on the coast of Cyrene, in north Africa, although the characters come from a range of cities around the Mediterranean, most notably, Athens.
The date of the play is unknown, but from the average amount of musical passages that it contains, it is thought that it probably belongs to Plautus's middle period, about 200 BC.