Cornell College Classical Studies
About Cornell Academics Admissions Alumni Athletics Offices Library
Home > Classical Studies > Latin

Introduction to Latin Literature

Related Topics

AMICI

Ariadne: Resources for Athenaze
Let's Review Greek!
Roman Portraits
Scriba Software
VRoma Project


Plautus: Select Bibliography

Drama in the Roman Republic: Select Bibliography

Articles suitable for the summary/reaction papers are listed in the last section. They are on reserve or available on JSTOR.

Roman Comedy & Theater: General Works

  • Beacham, Richard C. 1992. The Roman Theatre and its Audience. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.
  • Beare, W. 1965. The Roman Stage. London: Barnes and Noble.
  • Bieber, Margarete. 1961. History of the Greek and Roman Theater (2nd ed). Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press.
  • Csapo, Eric and William J. Slater. 1995. The Context of Ancient Drama. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press.
  • Dorey T.A. and D.R. Dudley. 1965. Roman Drama. London: Routledge.
  • Duckworth, George E. 1952. The Nature of Roman Comedy. Princeton.
  • Hunter, R. L. 1985. The New Comedy of Greece and Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Luce, T. James, ed. 1982. Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner.
  • Marshall, C.W. 2006. The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Saunders, Catharine. 1966. Costume in Roman Comedy. New York: AMS Press.
  • Scodel, Ruth, ed. 1993. Theater and Society in the Classical World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Sebesta Judith, Lynn & Bonfante, eds. 1994. The World of Roman Costume. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Simon, Erika. The Ancient Theatre. Trans. C.E. Vafopoulou-Richardson. London: Methuen, 1982.
  • Wiles, David. 1991. The Masks of Menander: Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Plautus

  • Anderson, William S. 1993. Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy. Toronto, Univ. of Toronto Press.
  • Chalmers, Walter R. 1965. "Plautus and his Audience." In T.A. Dorey and D.R. Dudley. Roman Drama, 21-50. London: Routledge.
  • Goldberg, Sander M. 1998. "Plautus in the Palatine." Journal of Roman Studies 88: 1-20.
  • Goldberg, Sander M. 1986. Understanding Terence. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Gruen, Erich S. 1992. "Plautus and the Public Stage." In Erich Segal, ed. Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. Oxford 2001. 83-94.
  • Ketterer, Robert. "Stage Properties in Plautine Comedy I." Semiotica 58 (1986) 193-216.
  • Ketterer, Robert. "Stage Properties in Plautine Comedy III. Props in Four Plays of Identity." Semiotica 60 (1986) 29-72.
  • Moore, Timothy J. 1999. "Facing the Music: Character and Musical Accompaniment in Roman Comedy." Syllecta Classica 10: 130-53. 882.009 C884 1999
  • Moore, Timothy J. "Music and Structure in Roman Comedy." American Journal of Philology 119 (1998) 245-73.
  • Moore, Timothy J. 1998. The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Moore, Timothy J. 1989. "Seats and Social Status in the Plautine Theatre." Classical Journal 90: 113-123.
  • Parker, Holt. 1996. "Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-Examined." American Journal of Philology 117: 585-617.
  • Segal, Erich. 1978. Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.
  • Segal, Erich, ed. 2001. Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Slater, N.W. 1985. Plautus in Performance: The Theater of the Mind. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.
  • Wiles, David. 1988. "Taking Farce Seriously: Recent Critical Approaches to Plautus," In Themes in Drama, 10: Farce, 261-71, ed. James Redmond. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Plautus, Asinaria *

  • Franko, George Fredric. "Ensemble Scenes in Plautus." American Journal of Philology 125 (2004) 27-59.
  • Gratwick, Adrian S. "Paternal 'Obsequalia': Some Passages of Plautus, Nonius, and Terence." Hermes 129 (2001) 45-62.
  • Hough, John Newbold. "The Structure of the Asinaria." American Journal of Philology 58 (1937) 19-37.
  • Konstan, David. "Asinaria: The Family." In Roman Comedy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. 47-56.
  • Lowe, J.C.B. "Aspects of Plautus' Originality in the Asinaria." Classical Quarterly 42 (1992) 152-75.
  • Slater, Niall. "Six Authors in Search of a Character: Asinaria as Guerilla Theatre." In Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. 55-69.

Cornell College
600 First Street West
Mt Vernon, IA 52314

John Gruber-Miller
(319) 895-4326

Maintained by: Classical Studies Last Update: March 31, 2011 9:37 am
600 First Street West, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 52314 ©2003 Cornell College; All Rights Reserved