The Braggart Soldier

Braggart Soldier, The (Miles gloriosus)

    Alternative Title: The Braggart Warrior; The Swaggering Soldier

    Author: Titus Maccius Plautus

    First Performance: c.205 BC, Rome

    First English Translation: 1852

    Genre: Latin com. in verse

    Setting: Before the home of Pyrgopolynices in Ephesus, 3rd c. bc

    Cast: 8m, 3f, extras

Pyrgopolynices is a boastful and lustful soldier who has abducted a young Athenian woman, Philocomasium, who is in love with a young gentleman called Pleusicles. By chance, Pleusicles' slave Palaestrio also finds himself in Pyrgopolynices' household, having been sold to him by pirates. Pleusicles is now living in a neighbouring house, and Palaestrio has contrived to break through the walls, so that the lovers can meet secretly. Unfortunately, another slave sees...

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