Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated

By Titus Maccius Plautus · Running time 01:36:43 · Comedy

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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

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