Seventeen dramas.
Both very short ones and slightly longer ones.
Both comic ones and enlightening ones.
Plautus and Plato in the same book.
The rather frivolous title comes from the humour that characterizes all seventeen dramas, humour that ranges from coarse jokes to gentle irony, from playing with words to parodying Plato’s dialogues. However, through comic dialogues and situations very serious social topics and problems are dealt with, which gives the book considerably more weight than that offered by the title. A Few Grams of Drama provokes laughter, but also stimulates thought.