Mercator; The Merchant: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mercator; The Merchant, 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 Mercator; The Merchant by Titus Maccius Plautus. (Translated by Henry Thomas Riley.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Unaware that the woman Pasicompsa is his son's mistress, since the son says that he has brought her home to be his mother's attendant, an aged Athenian falls desperately in love with her. Rather than bring her into his house and have his wife find out, he has his neighbor house her. But then the neighbor's wife returns - and the son also discovers where his love has been hidden. Confusing? Only intentionally! - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Demipho, an aged Athenian: Algy Pug Lysimachus, an aged Athenian: Larry Wilson Charinus, son of Demipho, who is in love with Pasicompsa: Priamedes Eutychus, son of Lysimachus: Adrian Stephens Acanthio, the servant of Charinus: Alan Mapstone A Cook: ToddHW Pasicompsa, a young woman beloved by Charinus: Jenn Broda Dorippa, the wife of Lysimachus: Felicia Molyneux Syra, an old woman, her servant: laurakgibbs Peristrata, the wife of Demipho: Agnes Robert Behr Lycissa, her attendant: Stacey Malcolm Servant: Greg Giordano Stage Directions: Sonia Editing: ToddHW

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mercator; The Merchant
• Author credits: Titus Maccius Plautus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:55:47

Catalogue topics

• mistress
• multiple suitors

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 21:53
2. 02 - Act 2 — 25:33
3. 03 - Act 3 — 17:16
4. 04 - Act 4 — 28:22
5. 05 - Act 5 — 22:43

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