Companion to Plautus

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 xAcknowledgement xvIntroduction: A 2020 Vision of Plautus 1George Fredric Franko and Dorota Dutsch1 The State of Roman Theater, c. 200 BCE 17Timothy J. Moore2 Plautus and Greek Drama 31Sebastiana Nervegna3 Stages and Stagecraft 47Anne H. Groton4 Actors and Audience 61Isabella Tardin Cardoso5 Nouo Modo Nouom Aliquid Inuentum: Plautine Priorities 77David Christenson6 Plays of Mistaken Identity 93Costas Panayotakis7 Plautus and the Marriage Plot 109Sharon L. James8 Stock Characters and Stereotypes 123Shawn O’Bryhim9 The Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of Deception 135Ferdinand Stürner10 To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the Meretrix 151Catherine Connors11 The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated: Stock Characters in Evolution 165Barbara K. Gold12 Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and Power 179Anne Feltovich13 Plotting the Romance: Plautus’ Rudens, Cistellaria, and Poenulus 193Stavros Frangoulidis14 Tragicomedy and Paratragedy: Plautus’s Amphitruo, Captivi, and Rudens 207Walter Stockert15 The Language of Plautus 221Peter Barrios‐Lech16 Metatheater and Improvisation in Plautus 237Christopher Bungard17 Music and Meter in Plautus 251T.H.M. Gellar‐Goad18 Comic Technique in Plautus’s Asinaria and Casina 269Martin T. Dinter19 Plautus and the Topography of His World 287Sophia Papaioannou20 Warfare and Imperialism in and Around Plautus 301Paul J. Burton21 Religion in and Around Plautus 317Seth A. Jeppesen22 Gender and Sexuality in Plautus 331Serena S. Witzke23 Owners and Slaves in and Around Plautus 347Amy Richlin24 Slave Labor in Plautus 361Roberta Stewart25 Plautus and His Dramatic Successors in the Republican Period 379Gesine Manuwald26 Alii Rhetorica Tongent: Plautus and Public Speech 393Emilia A. Barbiero27 The Textual Tradition of Plautus 407Rolando Ferri28 The Medieval Reception of Plautus’s Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis Blesensis 419Antony Augoustakis29 From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486–1530) 429Gianni Guastella30 Plautus in Early Modern England 445George Fredric Franko31 Reception Today: Theater and Movies 461Rodrigo T. Goncalves32 Trends in Plautus Translation 473James TatumIndex 489Index Locorum Plautinorum 495