by Plauto · Clasicas Ediciones,S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478827626
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«Miles Gloriosus» is the classic comedy by Plautus, published by Ediciones Clásicas in paperback and in Spanish.
Plautus turns Pyrgopolinices, a boastful soldier, into a pretext for displaying the tropes of his theater: the cunning slave, mistaken identity, wordplay, the lecherous old man and the underworld. The play premiered when Rome was preparing for the Battle of Zama, although it is neither an anti-military nor a pacifist text.
The edition includes an introduction, translation and notes by Jesús Ricardo Martín Fernández, Beatriz Martín González and Raúl Doval Salgado.
Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his. He influenced some of the greatest figures in literature, including Shakespeare and Molière.
