List of extant plays by Plautus and Terence -- Introduction: Roman comedy / Alison Sharrock -- Part
... I. The World of Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence in their Roman contexts / Gesine Manuwald -- Native Italian drama and its influence on Plautus / Costas Panayotakis -- Roman comedy and the poetics of adaptation / Mario Telò -- The politics of Roman comedy / Robert Germany -- Part II. The Fabric of Roman Comedy: Stage action in Roman comedy / C. W. Marshall -- Music and metre / Timothy J. Moore -- Comic technique / Isabella Tardin Cardoso -- Metatheatre / David Christenson -- The language of Roman comedy / Evangelos Karakasis -- Part III. The Sociology of Roman Comedy: Fathers and sons / Martin T. Dinter -- Slaves and Roman comedy / William Fitzgerald -- Mothers and whores / Dorota Dutsch -- Gods and Roman comedy / Anna Clark -- Legal laughter / Andreas Bartholomä -- Family finances / Elaine Fantham -- Part IV. The Reception of Roman Comedy: The reception of Republican comedy in antiquity / Gesine Manuwald -- The manuscripts and illustration of Plautus and Terence / Beatrice Radden Keefe -- The anti-Terentian dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim / Marek Thue Kretschmer -- Roman comedy in early modern England / Robert S. Miola -- Roman comedy in early modern Italy and France / Céline Candiard -- Roman comedy in Germany (from humanism to Lessing) / Florian Hurka -- Roman comedy on stage and screen in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Céline Candiard. Read More