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Author:   Dorota Dutsch (University of California, Santa Barbara) ,  George Fredric Franko (Hollins University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.089kg
ISBN:  

9781118957981

ISBN 10:   1118957989
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   25 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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

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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.

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