La comèdia del fantasma

The Ghost Comedy belongs to the Mostellaria, one of the most ingenious and representative comedies of the Latin playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. This edition was published by CIMS (Irina SL) as part of the "La Quimera" collection and is presented as an ideal text for both students and lovers of classical literature.

The play revolves around the misadventures of a young man who, with the help of his cunning slave, devises an ingenious scheme to obtain money from his avaricious father so he can live out his love. The plot is structured around a far-fetched lie—the existence of a ghost in the house—which unleashes a series of comical situations, misunderstandings, and farcical situations characteristic of Plautine comedy.

✨ Interesting facts about the author
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright born in Sarsina, Umbria. He is considered the foremost author of comedies in Latin literature, and his work significantly influenced later playwrights such as Molière and Shakespeare (who adapted his Amphitryon into The Comedy of Errors). His plays, the oldest surviving complete works in Latin, are characterized by a popular and lighthearted humor, the use of lively dialogue, and a wealth of stock characters—the cunning slave, the miserly old man, the lovelorn young man, and the braggart—who are at the origin of the European comic tradition.