Comedy · 1852

Rudens

The Rope

by Plautus

Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1852)

A comedy of shipwreck and recognition: a storm raised by the star Arcturus wrecks a procurer's ship off the coast near Cyrene and casts two girls ashore at the temple of Venus, where a fisherman hauls up in his net a wallet whose trinkets reveal that one of them is the lost daughter of the old exile who lives next door.

Contents · 9 parts

• Dramatis Personae11 lines
• The Subject1 paragraph
• The Acrostic Argument1 paragraph
• The Prologue1 paragraph
• Act I113 paragraphs
• Act II165 paragraphs
• Act IIIabout 210 lines
• Act IVabout 320 lines
• Act Vabout 150 lines

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