Three Comedies life coaching the poet of the Viking

the poet of the Viking Age

chockful of life" (Margaret Atwood

and the light was uniformly clear

But when Amelia's nanny turns up dead

Three Comedies life coaching the poet of the VikingA major comic artist in Republican Rome, Plautus left a legacy of twenty extremely inventive comedies. Ostensibly Latin versions of Greek plays staged in Athens several generations earlier, they display an exuberance and zany sense of humor that are distinctly Roman. Peter L. Smith here offers lively and colloquial English verse translations of three plays: Miles Gloriosus (The Braggart Warrior), Pseudolus (The Cheat), and Rudens (The Rope). In their