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[Deinhardt]

Esting to note how many favourite personages in the modern drama and in
modern fiction Plautus at least prefigures. Long though the list is, it
does not contain a large proportion of thoroughly respectable names:
Plautus rarely introduces us to people, male or female, whom we should
care to have long in the same house with us. A real lady seldom appears
in these comedies, and--to approach a paradox--when she does she usually
comes perilously close to being no lady; the same is usually true of the
real gentleman. The generalization in the Epilogue of _The Captives_ may
well be made particular: "Plautus finds few plays such as this which
make good men better." Yet there is little in his plays which makes
men--to say nothing of good men--worse. A bluff Shakespearean coarseness
of thought and expression there often is, together with a number of
atrocious characters and scenes and situations. But compared with the
worst of a Congreve or a Wycherley, compared with the worst of our own
contemporary plays and musical comedies, the worst of Plautus, now
because of its being too revolting, now because of its being too
laughable, is innocuous. His moral land is one of black and white,
mostly black, without many of those really dangerous half-lights and
shadows in which too many of our present day playwrights virtuously
invite us to skulk and peer and speculate. Comparatively harmless though
they are, the translator has felt obliged to dilute certain phrases and
lines. The text accompanying his version is that of Leo, published by
Weidmann, 1895-96. In the few cases where he has departed from this text
brief cr


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