Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated

About this film

LibriVox recording of Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated by Titus Maccius Plautus. (Translated by Henry Thomas Riley.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Stalino and Euthynicis have both fallen in love with Casina, who as an infant was raised by Cleostrata, Stalino's mistress. It is arranged that Stalino and Euthynicis (Cleostrata's son) shall draw lots to see who will determine her future. But Cleostrata develops a stratagem to try to prevent this. (Note: some small fragments of the original script in Act 5 did not survive 2200 years. Neither the translator nor we have made anything up to fill those short gaps - in fact, the translator left some of the nearby text still in Latin - but you can get the idea of who is in big big trouble. You can look at the linked etext for some helpful info.) - Summary by ToddHW For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (47MB)

Directors & creators

Titus Maccius Plautus

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;mistress; draw lots for marriage; stratagems

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