Casina

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Casina is a comedic play by the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, known for its farcical plot involving marital schemes and mistaken identities.

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Casina canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Roman comedy
stage play
author Plautus
basedOn lost Greek New Comedy play
countryOfOrigin Ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
dramaticStructure five-act structure (traditional division)
featuresCharacter Casina
Chalinus
Cleostrata
Lysidamus
Olympio
genre comedy
farce
hasCharacterType clever slave
desired maiden
senex amator (aging lover)
young wife
hasForm prose passages
verse
hasHumorType physical comedy
situational comedy
verbal wit
influenced later European comic drama
literaryMovement Roman New Comedy
linked to: Roman comedy
literaryPeriod Roman Republic
medium theatre
notableFor comic misunderstandings
strong female agency in Cleostrata
use of stock characters
originalLanguage Latin
partOf Plautine corpus
linked to: Plautus
performanceType spoken drama
plotCharacteristic disguises
marital schemes
servant trickery
preservationStatus extant
setting Athens
theme deception
gender roles
jealousy
marital infidelity
mistaken identity
social satire
timeOfComposition 3rd–2nd century BCE (approximate)
tradition Palliata
workTitleInLatin Casina

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Plautus notableWork Casina
Casina featuresCharacter Casina
Casina workTitleInLatin Casina