Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated, credited to Titus Maccius Plautus, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated by Titus Maccius Plautus. (Translated by Henry Thomas Riley.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 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 look at the linked etext for some helpful info.) - Summary by ToddHW

Recording facts

• Recording title: Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated
• Author credits: Titus Maccius Plautus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:36:43

Catalogue topics

• mistress
• draw lots for marriage
• stratagems

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 12:39
2. 02 - Act 2 — 37:05
3. 03 - Act 3 — 22:57
4. 04 - Act 4 — 9:11
5. 05 - Act 5 — 14:51

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