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List of contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgement xv
Introduction: A 2020 Vision of Plautus 1
George Fredric Franko and Dorota Dutsch 1 The State of Roman Theater, c. 200 BCE 17
Timothy J. Moore 2 Plautus and Greek Drama 31
Sebastiana Nervegna 3 Stages and Stagecraft 47
Anne H. Groton 4 Actors and Audience 61
Isabella Tardin Cardoso 5
Nouo Modo Nouom Aliquid Inuentum: Plautine Priorities 77
David Christenson 6 Plays of Mistaken Identity 93
Costas Panayotakis 7 Plautus and the Marriage Plot 109
Sharon L. James 8 Stock Characters and Stereotypes 123
Shawn O'Bryhim 9 The
Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of Deception 135
Ferdinand Stürner 10 To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the
Meretrix 151
Catherine Connors 11 The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated: Stock Characters in Evolution 165
Barbara K. Gold 12 Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and Power 179
Anne Feltovich 13 Plotting the Romance: Plautus'
Rudens, Cistellaria, and
Poenulus 193
Stavros Frangoulidis 14 Tragicomedy and Paratragedy: Plautus's
Amphitruo, Captivi, and
Rudens 207
Walter Stockert 15 The Language of Plautus 221
Peter Barrios¿Lech 16 Metatheater and Improvisation in Plautus 237
Christopher Bungard 17 Music and Meter in Plautus 251
T.H.M. Gellar¿Goad 18 Comic Technique in Plautus's
Asinaria and
Casina 269
Martin T. Dinter 19 Plautus and the Topography of His World 287
Sophia Papaioannou 20 Warfare and Imperialism in and Around Plautus 301
Paul J. Burton 21 Religion in and Around Plautus 317
Seth A. Jeppesen 22 Gender and Sexuality in Plautus 331
Serena S. Witzke 23 Owners and Slaves in and Around Plautus 347
Amy Richlin 24 Slave Labor in Plautus 361
Roberta Stewart 25 Plautus and His Dramatic Successors in the Republican Period 379
Gesine Manuwald 26
Alii Rhetorica Tongent: Plautus and Public Speech 393
Emilia A. Barbiero 27 The Textual Tradition of Plautus 407
Rolando Ferri 28 The Medieval Reception of Plautus's
Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis Blesensis 419
Antony Augoustakis 29 From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486-1530) 429
Gianni Guastella 30 Plautus in Early Modern England 445
George Fredric Franko 31 Reception Today: Theater and Movies 461
Rodrigo T. Goncalves 32 Trends in Plautus Translation 473
James Tatum Index 489
Index Locorum Plautinorum 495
About the author
George Fredric Franko is Professor of Classical Studies at Hollins University, where he holds the Berry Professorship in Liberal Arts. He has published on a variety of topics and has directed productions of Plautus in Latin.
Dorota Dutsch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a PhD from McGill University. Her interests include Roman comedy, classical reception, and gender studies.
