Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus / Joannes Burmeister ; edited, translated and introduced by Michael Fontaine.

"Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian ' inversions' of the classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms...

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Main Author:	Burmeister, Joannes, 1576-1638 (Author)
Other Authors:	Fontaine, Michael (Editor)
Other title:	Plays. Selections.
Format:	Book
Language:	English Latin German
Published:	Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2015]
Series:	Bibliotheca Latinitatis novae.
Subjects:	Burmeister, Joannes, > 1576-1638. Plautus, Titus Maccius > Adaptations. Latin drama, Medieval and modern > History and criticism.