"Casina" vs. "The Braggart Soldier"

I prefer the play “The Braggart Soldier” over "Casina" because it dives deeper into the specifics of its story. With this, there is more character development, and the reader is fully capable of understanding the story and all its different parts. My favorite character from this play was Palaestrio because he was witty and hilarious throughout the work. He was the driving force behind all that happened, and his comedic presence was entertaining and fun to read.

Casina vs. The Braggart Soldier: Which would be better for the big screen?

I would argue that The Braggart Soldier would be better for a modern movie adaption. One of the key factors in deciding how or if to adapt something for the big screen is how understandable the plot, conflict, and characters can be to an audience. Although this is not to suggest that Casina is too difficult for most people to understand, but it has a sharp contrast between it's games of wits between Lysidamus and Cleostrata and the matter at hand of Casina becoming essentially Lysidamus's sex slave that may be incredibly off-putting for a modern audience. The Braggart Soldier presents a clear-cut antagonist in Pyrgopolynices and clear-cut protagonists in Philocomasium and Pleusicles, and follows a plot that has a natural progression towards the ending, that being Pyrgopolynices being publicly humiliated. All of these characters work far better in a modern comedy setting, and thus would be better for a big screen adaption.

Which Play I prefer. Casina or The Baggart Solider

"The Baggart Solider" to me was harder to follow. The actual format of the play was part of this. The paragraphs in this ply were longer and I lost focus easily. The names of the characters in the play were also very confusing. All the main characters started with P and they were hard to pronounce. Casina was much more entertaining for me. The humor aspect kept me engaged. While a girl getting fought over by two lovers is tiring story but the humor kept up the energy. I did like the scheming in "the Baggart Solider" play but even is this plot point it was still confusing to follow. I also like how Cleostrata was able to figure out her husbands plot and disrupt it. She is this play is not just the helpless wife unable to stop her husband.

Platus plays

I thought that Casina was hysterical. It is probably some childish humor but it was just too good to not laugh. I liked Casina because I felt that it was more straight forward to follow. In the braggart soldier, all of their names started with P's which made it confusing to tell who was who for a while. They were not common American names they were strange Greek names which did help in the slightest. I thought the story of the Braggart soldier was better but I would still give the win to Casina between the two.

"Casina" Vs. "The Braggart Soldier"

Personally, I prefer the play "Casina". This play was funnier and the story was much more interesting to me than that of "The Braggart Soldier". The formatting of the first play was much easier to follow along with and made the overall experience of reading it much more entertaining for me. In the second play, the format was less organized and made it a much harder read, and that led me to dislike that one just a bit more. The content of both plays were similar to me, the craving for love. Although that love was unrequited. Still, the first play stuck out to me more and was a more enjoyable and funny experience.

Plautus' Plays

The play "Casina" is the one I greatly prefer. I could follow the characters and idea of the play easily, which made it more enjoyable. It was an odd plot, but added to the comedy it was trying to portray. The constant scheming was funny, leading to the ending which was the most entertaining part of the play. After reading it I could remember what it was about and didn't find myself straying while reading. While reading "The Braggart Soldier" I could not follow it and found my attention not on the play. There was scheming but I did not find it humerus like in "Casina." The storyline of the characters was confusing to me, making the overall plot of the play confusing. It didn't seem like a comedy. 

Casina or The Braggart Soldier

I had some trouble reading and following along The Braggart Soldier, it was really easy to get the characters confused for me. So I enjoyed reading  Casina a lot more. I really liked how Cleostrata was able to figure out Lysidumus's plan all along and she was able to sabotage it and get revenge on Lysidumus. I think it was cool how Chalinus accepted to dress as Casina, maybe he did it to get back to Lysidumus for not letting him marry Casina. Other wise I can't really see why he would accept, I assume that back then dressing as a woman may not have been  seen as a thing a man would do, but still it was really funny. Something that confused me at the end was the fact that Cleostrata was not mad at her husband for his plan. Was she not mad because her plan worked? or maybe even she didn't even really love him so at the end of the day she didn't care? I think both plays could be good movie adaptations but I would rather see Casina in a film I think it would be  a great comedy .