This play begins with a h
This play begins with a humorously truncated prologue in which the author merely tells the audience to stretch its legs since the play is long. One character plans his own birthday party, during which his hired cooks argue and one of them declares that his broth can rejuvenate the old. Reworked by Giambattista Della Porta into La Trappolaria, the plot of this play is set in motion when the pimp Ballio is revealed to have sold a woman to a Macedonian soldier of fortune. This prompts a meeting with the crooked messenger Harpax who is bribed after the main character makes a bet with Simo, after he is informed by Caliodorus that he can no longer woo his love Phoenicium. FTP, name this play by Titus Maccius Plautus about the titular deceitful slave.
This play begins with a humorously truncated prologue in which the author merely tells the audience to stretch its legs since the play is long.
Pseudolus (prompt on "the cheat or "the deceitful slave" or equivalents)