SOURCE: “The Significance of a Comic Pattern in Plautus and Beaumarchais,” in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 88, No. 6, December, 1973, pp. 1262-87.
In the essay below, MacCary compares Plautus's play Casina with The Marriage of Figaro, arguing that the plays are structurally and thematically similar.
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