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Author:  Dorota Dutsch, George Fredric Franko

An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars 

A Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on the celebrated Old Latin period playwright. A brilliant comic poet, Plautus moved beyond writing Latin versions of Greek plays to create a uniquely Roman cultural experience worthy of contemporary scholarship. Contributions by a team of international scholars explore the theatrical background of Roman comedy, the theory and practice of Plautus’ dramatic composition, the relation of Plautus’ works to Roman social history, and his influence on later dramatists through the centuries. 

Responding to renewed modern interest in Plautine studies, the Companion reassesses Plautus’ works―plays that are meant to be viewed and experienced―to reveal new meaning and contemporary relevance. Chapters organized thematically offer multiple perspectives on individual plays and enable readers to gain a deeper understanding of Plautus’ reflection of, and influence on Roman society. Topics include metatheater and improvisation in Plautus, the textual tradition of Plautus, trends in Plautus Translation, and modern reception in theater and movies. Exploring the place of Plautus and Plautine comedy in the Western comic tradition, the Companion:

• Addresses the most recent trends in the study of Roman comedy
• Features discussions on religion, imperialism, slavery, war, class, gender, and sexuality in Plautus’ work
• Highlights recent scholarship on representation of socially vulnerable characters
• Discusses Plautus’ work in relation to Roman stages, actors, audience, and culture
• Examines the plot construction, characterization, and comic techniques in Plautus’ scripts 

Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series, A Companion to Plautus is an important resource for scholars, instructors, and students of both ancient and modern drama, comparative literature, classics, and history, particularly Roman history.

Table of contents:

• Introduction: A 2020 Vision of Plautus 
• 1 The State of Roman Theater, c. 200 BCE 
• 2 Plautus and Greek Drama 
• 3 Stages and Stagecraft 
• 4 Actors and Audience 
• 5 Nouo Modo Nouom Aliquid Inuentum: Plautine Priorities 
• 6 Plays of Mistaken Identity
• 7 Plautus and the Marriage Plot 
• 8 Stock Characters and Stereotypes 
• 9 The Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of Deception 
• 10 To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the Meretrix 
• 11 The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated: Stock Characters in Evolution 
• 12 Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and Power 
• 13 Plotting the Romance: Plautus’ Rudens, Cistellaria, and Poenulus 
• 14 Tragicomedy and Paratragedy: Plautus’s Amphitruo, Captivi, and Rudens 
• 15 The Language of Plautus
• 16 Metatheater and Improvisation in Plautus 
• 17 Music and Meter in Plautus 
• 18 Comic Technique in Plautus’s Asinaria and Casina 
• 19 Plautus and the Topography of His World 
• 20 Warfare and Imperialism in and Around Plautus 
• 21 Religion in and Around Plautus 
• 22 Gender and Sexuality in Plautus 
• 23 Owners and Slaves in and Around Plautus 
• 24 Slave Labor in Plautus 
• 25 Plautus and His Dramatic Successors in the Republican Period 
• 26 Alii Rhetorica Tongent: Plautus and Public Speech 
• 27 The Textual Tradition of Plautus 
• 28 The Medieval Reception of Plautus’s Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis Blesensis 
• 29 From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486–1530)
• 30 Plautus in Early Modern England 
• 31 Reception Today: Theater and Movies 
• 32 Trends in Plautus Translation 

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