A companion to Plautus / edited by George Fredric Franko and Dorota Dutsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franko, George Fredric, Editor.

Dutsch, Dorota, Editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plautus, Titus Maccius--Criticism and interpretation.

Plautus, Titus Maccius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (515 pages).

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020.

Summary:

"This reference resource will offer a comprehensive survey of the plays of Rome's most popular dramatist. The surviving scripts of Titus Maccius Plautus (along with those of his successor Terence) provide the primary source of the Western Comic theatrical tradition for the Middle Ages, Renaissance, modern era, and today's newer media of movies and television sitcoms. The Companion will explore the distinctive features of Plautus' dramaturgy, how those features relate to their Roman environment, and how they have inspired subsequent dramatists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A 2020 vision of Plautus / George Fredric Franko and Dorota Dutsch

The state of Roman theater, c. 200 BCE / Timothy J. Moore

Plautus and Greek drama / Sebastiana Nervegna

Stages and stagecraft / Anne H. Groton

Actors and audience / Isabella Tardin Cardoso

Nouo modo nouom aliquid inuentum : Plautine priorities / David Christenson

Plays of mistaken identity / Costas Panayotakis

Plautus and the marriage plot / Sharon L. James

Stock characters and stereotypes / Shawn O'Bryhim

The Servus Callidus in charge : plays of deception / Ferdinand Sturner

To hell and back : comedy, cult, and the house of the Meretrix / Catherine Connors

The wife in charge, the husband humiliated : stock characters in evolution / Barbara K. Gold

Archetypal character studies : masculinity and power / Anne Feltovich

Plotting the romance : Plautus' Rudens, Cistellaria, and Poenulus / Stavros Frangoulidis

Tragicomedy and paratragedy : Plautus's Amphitruo, Captivi, and Rudens / Walter Stockert

The language of Plautus / Peter Barrios-Lech

Metatheater and improvisation in Plautus / Christopher Bungard

Music and meter in Plautus / T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

Comic technique in Plautus's Asinaria and Casina / Martin T. Dinter

Plautus and the topography of his world / Sophia Papaioannou

Warfare and imperialism in and around Plautus / Paul J. Burton

Religion in and around Plautus / Seth A. Jeppesen

Gender and sexuality in Plautus / Serena S. Witzke

Owners and slaves in and around Plautus / Amy Richlin

Slave labor in Plautus / Roberta Stewart

Plautus and his dramatic successors in the Republican period / Gesine Manuwald

Alii Rhetorica Tongent : Plautus and public speech / Emilia A. Barbiero

The textual tradition of Plautus / Rolando Ferri

The medieval reception of Plautus's Aulularia : Querolus and vitalis blesensis / Antony Augoustakis

From Ferrara to Venice : Plautus in vernacular and early Italian comedy (1486-1530) / Gianni Guastella

Plautus in early modern England / George Frederic Franko

Reception today : theater and movies / Rodrigo T. Goncalves

Trends in Plautus translation / James Tatum.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118958001

1118958004

9781118957998

1118957997

9781118958018

1118958012

OCLC:

1145019018