Notes on contributorsIntroduction; A 2020 VISION OF PLAUTUS1.The State of Roman Theater, c. 200 BCETimothy J. Moore2.Plautus and Greek DramaSebastiana Nervegna3.Stages and StagecraftAnne H. Groton4.Actors and AudienceIsabella Tardin Cardoso5.nouo modo nouom aliquid inuentum: Plautine Priorities -David Christenson6.Plays of Mistaken IdentityCostas Panayotakis7.Plautus and the Marriage PlotSharon L. James8.Stock Characters and StereotypesShawn O'Bryhim9. The Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of DeceptionFerdinand Stürner10.To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the MeretrixCatherine Connors11.The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated:Stock Characters in EvolutionBarbara K. Gold12.Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and PowerAnne Feltovich13.Plotting the Romance: Plautus' Rudens, Cistellaria, and PoenulusStavros Frangoulidis14.Tragicomedy and Paratragedy. Plautus1/4s Amphitruo, Captivi, and RudensWalter Stockert15.The Language of PlautusPeter Barrios-Lech16.Metatheater and Improvisation in PlautusChristopher Bungard17.Music and Meter in PlautusT. H. M. Gellar-Goad18.Comic Technique in Plautus's Asinaria and CasinaMartin Dinter19.Plautus and the Topography of his WorldSophia Papaioannou20.Warfare and Imperialism in and around PlautusPaul J. Burton21.Religion in and around PlautusSeth A. Jeppesen22.Gender and Sexuality in PlautusSerena S. Witzke23.Owners and Slaves in and around PlautusAmy Richlin24.Slave Labor in PlautusRoberta Stewart25.Plautus and his Dramatic Successors in the Republican PeriodGesine Manuwald26.Alii rhetorica tongent: Plautus and Public SpeechEmilia A. Barbiero27.The Textual Tradition of PlautusRolando Ferri28.The Medieval Reception of Plautus's Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis BlesensisAntony Augoustakis29.From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486-1530)Gianni Guastella30.Plautus in Early Modern EnglandGeorge Fredric Franko31.Reception Today: Theater and MoviesRodrigo T. Gonçalves32.Trends in Plautus TranslationJames Tatum
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.