Plautus Plays
Plautus Roman Plays
Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Not much is known about Titus Maccius Plautus' early life. It is believed that he was born in, a small town in in northern Italy, around 254 BC. According to Morris Marples, Plautus worked as a stage-carpenter or scene-shifter in his early years. It is from this work, perhaps, that his love of the theater originated. His acting talent was eventually discovered; and he adopted the names 'Maccius' (a clownish stock-character in popular farces) and 'Plautus' (a term meaning either 'flat-footed' or 'flat-eared', like the ears of a hound). Google sketchup 2016 free download. Tradition holds that he made enough money to go into the nautical business, but that the venture collapsed. He is then said to have worked as a manual laborer and to have studied Greek drama—particularly the of —in his leisure.