Mostellaria

Mostellaria is a Latin play by Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC)[1].

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as Mostellaria, or the Haunted House by Henry Thomas Riley, published 1912.

Kevin P. Joyce's play When the Cat's Away is loosely based on Mostellaria, transposing the story from Athens to modern day Nantucket.

Translated and adapted into Afrikaans under the original Latin title by Dawid de Villiers in 1978.

Performance history in South Africa

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostellaria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautus

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