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Author Plautus, Titus Maccius.

Title The haunted house / Plautus ; [translated by Kenneth McLeish] ; edited by J. Michael Walton.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource
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Note Translated from the Latin.
Originally published: in print in Four Roman comedies. London: Methuen Drama, 2003.
Summary Philolaches is a good for nothing so-and-so: he seems to live purely to spend his father's cash, or, when he cannot get it, to borrow against it. Everything he loves is paid for by someone else's efforts, including the lady of his dreams, ex-courtesan Philematium. Now while his father is away earning money, Philolaches is spending it all on one big house party. But when his father returns unexpectedly, Philolaches is stumped. Luckily, his trusty slave Tranio has a plan: he bundles his master's guests into a closet, and distracts the father with a tall tale that the house his haunted. As foolish as Philolaches is, so is Tranio quick-witted, building yarn upon fib upon lie to keep his master's father in the dark.
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Local Note Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
Genre/Form Drama.
Drama.
Added Author McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997.
Walton, J. Michael, 1939-
Added Title Mostellaria. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97014613
ISBN 9781408169094.00000012
Standard No. 10.5040/9781408169094.00000012