Cistellaria; or, The Casket: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cistellaria; or, The Casket, 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 Cistellaria; or, The Casket by Titus Maccius Plautus. (Translated by Henry Thomas Riley.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The casket is a small box with recognition tokens in it so that someone can prove that they are who they claim to be. Which tells you that there will be quite the confusion with people in this play being other than whom they seem to be, are believed to be, or even whom they believe themselves to be. Plus rape, incest, attempted murder by exposure, kidnapping, slavery.... Good thing this all takes place almost 2500 years ago. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: The God of Help, who speaks the Prologue: ToddHW Demipho, a merchant of Lemnos: Larry Wilson Alcesimarchus, a young man of Sicyon: KeltonLee Lampadiscus, servant of Demipho: Alan Mapstone Phanostrata, wife of Demipho: Sonia Silenium, their daughter, beloved by Alcesimarchus: ShrimpPhish Melaenis, a Procuress: valroth Halisca, her servant: Agnes Robert Behr A Procuress, the mother of Gymnasium: WendyKatzHiller Gymnasium, a Courtesan: Rapunzelina Stage Directions: Inkell Editing: ToddHW

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cistellaria; or, The Casket
• Author credits: Titus Maccius Plautus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 58:29

Catalogue topics

• mistaken identity

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 20:06
2. 02 - Act 2 — 16:32
3. 03 - Act 3 — 3:27
4. 04 - Act 4 — 16:03
5. 05 - Act 5 — 2:21

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