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About this book
Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America's foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of Plautus' ancient drama. In addition to the original detailed studies of six of the dramatists's plays, the methodology of performance criticism, the use of conventions, and the nature of comic heroism in Plautus, this edition includes new studies on: * the induction into the world of the play* the scripted imitation of improvisation* Plautus's comments on his previous work* the nature of 'tragicomedy'.
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Index Locorum
Amphitruo
15: 185
45: 185
51–55: 124, 185–186
51–63: 154n14
59–63: 124, 186
78: 186n15
88: 186
89–90: 197n38
97: 186
115: 197n38
121: 187
123: 85n16, 187
124: 187
141: 187
176–179: 187
180–181: 188
198: 189
200: 189
201: 189
265: 189
269: 189
295: 189
298: 196
300–301: 189
302–305: 189n21
308–309: 189n21
313: 196
313–314: 189n21
316: 190n21
331–332: 113n24
357: 182n2
435–437: 190
455–457: 190
470–471: 190, 195
515: 190
521: 190
550–551: 191
565: 191n23
571: 191n23
585: 191, 191n23
621: 195
621–624: 141, 191
633–653: 191n24
654–658: 192n24
682: 191, 193
694: 191–192
696: 192
726: 192
755: 198
786: 192
861–862: 192n26
861–866: 192–193
868: 193
916–917: 193
932: 193
933–935: 193
980: 193
984–987: 193–94
988: 194
993: 194
997–998: 194
999: 194, 195
1005: 194
1005–1006...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Introduction to the Series
- Preface
- Preface to the Second Edition
- I Introduction: The Performance Dimension
- II Epidicus
- III The Ruse of Persia – or – The Story-Telling Slaves
- IV Six Authors in Search of a Character – Asinaria as Guerrilla Theatre
- V The Pilots of Penance – or – The Slave of Lust
- VI The Double-Dealer – or – The Skin-Changer
- VII Words, Words, Words
- VIII Convention and Reaction
- IX Playwrighting as Heroism
- Appendix I Plautine Negotiations: the Poenulus Prologue Unpacked
- Appendix II Improvisation in Plautus
- Appendix III The Dates of Plautus’ Curculio and Trinummus Reconsidered
- Appendix IV Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum