A Companion to Plautus: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

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.

Notes on contributors Introduction; A 2020 VISION OF PLAUTUS 1.The State of Roman Theater, c. 200 BCE Timothy J. Moore 2.Plautus and Greek Drama Sebastiana Nervegna 3.Stages and Stagecraft Anne H. Groton 4.Actors and Audience Isabella Tardin Cardoso 5.nouo modo nouom aliquid inuentum: Plautine Priorities - David Christenson 6.Plays of Mistaken Identity Costas Panayotakis 7.Plautus and the Marriage Plot Sharon L. James 8.Stock Characters and Stereotypes Shawn O'Bryhim 9. The Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of Deception Ferdinand Stürner 10.To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the Meretrix Catherine Connors 11.The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated:Stock Characters in Evolution Barbara K. Gold 12.Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and Power Anne Feltovich 13.Plotting the Romance: Plautus' Rudens, Cistellaria, and Poenulus Stavros Frangoulidis 14.Tragicomedy and Paratragedy. Plautus1/4s Amphitruo, Captivi, and Rudens Walter Stockert 15.The Language of Plautus Peter Barrios-Lech 16.Metatheater and Improvisation in Plautus Christopher Bungard 17.Music and Meter in Plautus T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 18.Comic Technique in Plautus's Asinaria and Casina Martin Dinter 19.Plautus and the Topography of his World Sophia Papaioannou 20.Warfare and Imperialism in and around Plautus Paul J. Burton 21.Religion in and around Plautus Seth A. Jeppesen 22.Gender and Sexuality in Plautus Serena S. Witzke 23.Owners and Slaves in and around Plautus Amy Richlin 24.Slave Labor in Plautus Roberta Stewart 25.Plautus and his Dramatic Successors in the Republican Period Gesine Manuwald 26.Alii rhetorica tongent: Plautus and Public Speech Emilia A. Barbiero 27.The Textual Tradition of Plautus Rolando Ferri 28.The Medieval Reception of Plautus's Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis Blesensis Antony Augoustakis 29.From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486-1530) Gianni Guastella 30.Plautus in Early Modern England George Fredric Franko 31.Reception Today: Theater and Movies Rodrigo T. Gonçalves 32.Trends in Plautus Translation James Tatum