Plautus: Mostellaria

Preface

Playbill
Summary and Highlights
Character Names and Meanings
Synopsis and Arcs

1 Why Plautus? Why Mostellaria?
Ghostly Greek Comic Ancestors
Ghastly Roman Renovations?
Translation, the Odyssey, and Versatile Plautus

2 Foundations and frames
Venue and Date
Roman Slavery
The Traffic in Women
Expenses of Monstrous Scale
Rural Roman Conservatism and Urban Greek Liberality
Paratheatrical Performances and the Roman Forum
Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Superstition

3 Staging Mostellaria
The Roman Scaena
Masks, Characterization, and Actors
Costumes and Props
Embedded Stage Directions
Monologues, Asides, and Eavesdropping
Metatheater
Improvisation
Meter
Farce and Low Resolution

4 Afterlife and ghost lights
The postmortem Scripts
Three Early Modern English Reincarnations
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Tranio Trickster

Appendix 1: Pliny's "Haunted House"
Appendix 2: A Doubling Chart
Appendix 3: Character Line Counts
Appendix 4: A Selective Chronology

Notes
Editions and English Translations
Bibliography
Index

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classical reception; classics; Latin; Roman comedy; historical context; play; ancient Rome