For other meanings see Casina (disambiguation).Casina is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus.Plautus often employed stock characters in his plays. For example the slave who is free born the wife that is smarter than her husband the dirty old man chasing after the young lady. In Casina all three of these are seen.
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author
Plautus
character in play
Alcesimus, Chalinus - slave of Cleostrata, Citrio - cook, Cleostrata - wife of Lysidamus, Lysidamus, Myrrhina - wife of Alcesimus, Olympio - slave of Lysidamus, Pardalisca - maid of Cleostrata
setting of play
a street in Athens before the houses of Lysidamus and Alcesimus
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