Plautus: Mostellaria

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nPreface\nPlaybill\n	Summary and Highlights\n	Character Names and Meanings\n	Synopsis and Arcs\n1 Why Plautus? Why Mostellaria?\n	Ghostly Greek Comic Ancestors\n	Ghastly Roman Renovations?\n	Translation, the Odyssey, and Versatile Plautus\n2 Foundations and Frames\n	Venue and Date\n	Roman Slavery\n	The Traffic in Women\n	Expenses of Monstrous Scale\n	Rural Roman Conservatism and Urban Greek Liberality\n	Paratheatrical Performances and the Roman Forum\n	Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Superstition\n3 Staging Mostellaria\n	The Roman Scaena\n	Masks, Characterization, and Actors\n	Costumes and Props\n	Embedded Stage Directions\n	Monologues, Asides, and Eavesdropping\n	Metatheater\n	Improvisation\n	Meter\n	Farce and Low Resolution\n4 Afterlife and Ghost Lights\n	The Postmortem Scripts\n	Three Early Modern English Reincarnations\n	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\n	Tranio Trickster\nAppendix 1: Pliny’s “Haunted House” (Letter 7.27.5–11)\nAppendix 2: A Doubling Chart\nAppendix 3: Character Line Counts\nAppendix 4: A Selective Chronology\nNotes\nEditions and English Translations\nWorks Cited\nIndex