Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction; A 2020 VISION OF PLAUTUS
1.The State of Roman Theater, c. 200 BCETimothy J. Moore
2.Plautus and Greek DramaSebastiana Nervegna
3.Stages and StagecraftAnne H. Groton
4.Actors and AudienceIsabella Tardin Cardoso
5.nouo modo nouom aliquid inuentum: Plautine Priorities –David Christenson
6.Plays of Mistaken IdentityCostas Panayotakis
7.Plautus and the Marriage PlotSharon L. James
8.Stock Characters and StereotypesShawn O'Bryhim
9. The Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of DeceptionFerdinand Stürner
10.To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the MeretrixCatherine Connors
11.The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated:Stock Characters in EvolutionBarbara K. Gold
12.Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and PowerAnne Feltovich
13.Plotting the Romance: Plautus’ Rudens, Cistellaria, and PoenulusStavros Frangoulidis
14.Tragicomedy and Paratragedy. Plautusʼs Amphitruo, Captivi, and RudensWalter Stockert
15.The Language of PlautusPeter Barrios-Lech
16.Metatheater and Improvisation in PlautusChristopher Bungard
17.Music and Meter in PlautusT. H. M. Gellar-Goad
18.Comic Technique in Plautus’s Asinaria and CasinaMartin Dinter
19.Plautus and the Topography of his WorldSophia Papaioannou
20.Warfare and Imperialism in and around PlautusPaul J. Burton
21.Religion in and around PlautusSeth A. Jeppesen
22.Gender and Sexuality in PlautusSerena S. Witzke
23.Owners and Slaves in and around PlautusAmy Richlin
24.Slave Labor in PlautusRoberta Stewart
25.Plautus and his Dramatic Successors in the Republican PeriodGesine Manuwald
26.Alii rhetorica tongent: Plautus and Public SpeechEmilia A. Barbiero
27.The Textual Tradition of PlautusRolando Ferri
28.The Medieval Reception of Plautus’s Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis BlesensisAntony Augoustakis
29.From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486-1530)Gianni Guastella
30.Plautus in Early Modern EnglandGeorge Fredric Franko
31.Reception Today: Theater and MoviesRodrigo T. Gonçalves
32.Trends in Plautus TranslationJames Tatum