TY - BOOK AU - Mai Hassan Ali Hassan AU - Abdelaziz Hammouda , AU - Mohamed Hamdy Ibrahim , TI - The roman slave in early English comedy / PY - 2002/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mai Hassan Ali Hassan , KW - English comedy KW - Roman patterns KW - Roman slave N1 - Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - Roman comedy is the ancestor of early English comedy. The transmission of the roman patterns , plots and characters is due to the roman comic poet , plautus whose comic pieces are remarkable for their exuberance and love of fun. His plays bear so close a family resemblance in their exploration of funny tricks and love adventures and also in their presentation of number of stereotyped figures UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -