The Rope and Other PlaysBy: Plautus Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 184 BC) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that were to influence the comedies of Shakespeare, Molire and many others. In The Ghost, a dissolute son who has squandered his father's money is