The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy

FM......Page 1
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
PROLOGUE......Page 17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 27
EXTANT PLAYS BY PLAUTUS AND TERENCE......Page 28
ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR REFERENCES TO FRAGMENTS......Page 30
Introduction: Roman Comedy......Page 31
Plautus and Terence in Their Roman Contexts......Page 45
Native Italian Drama and Its Influence on Plautus......Page 60
Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation......Page 75
The Politics of Roman Comedy......Page 94
Stage Action in Roman Comedy......Page 113
Music and Metre......Page 127
Comic Technique......Page 146
Metatheatre......Page 162
The Language of Roman Comedy......Page 177
Fathers and Sons......Page 197
Slaves and Roman Comedy......Page 212
Mothers and Whores......Page 224
Gods and Roman Comedy......Page 241
Legal Laughter......Page 253
Family Finances......Page 265
The Reception of Republican Comedy in Antiquity......Page 283
The Manuscripts and Illustration of Plautus and Terence......Page 298
The Anti-Terentian Dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim......Page 319
Roman Comedy in Early Modern England......Page 334
Roman Comedy in Early Modern Italy and France......Page 347
Roman Comedy in Germany (from Humanism to Lessing)......Page 361
Roman Comedy on Stage and Screen in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries......Page 372
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 389
INDEX LOCORUM......Page 429
INDEX RERUM......Page 432