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An asterisk (*) marks articles suitable for the summary/reaction papers. All are on reserve except Anderson.

General Roman Comedy & Theater

  • 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.
  • Konstan, David. 1983. Roman Comedy. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press.
  • Luce, T. James, ed. 1982. Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner.
  • 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.
  • Sutton, Dana. 1993. Ancient Comedy: The War of the Generations. New York: Twayne Publishers.
  • Wiles, David. 1991. The Masks of Menander: Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Plautine Comedy

  • Anderson, William S. 1993. Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy. Toronto, Univ. of Toronto Press.* Ch 3 Plautus' Plotting
  • Chalmers, Walter R. 1965. "Plautus and his Audience." In T.A. Dorley 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.
  • Gruen, Erich S. 1992. "Plautus and the Public Stage." In Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome, 124-57. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Hughes, David J. 1975. A Bibliography of Scholarship on Plautus. Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert.
  • 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. Call Number 882.009 C884 1999
  • Moore, Timothy J. 1998. The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience. Austin: University of Texas Press.* Chs 2, esp. pp. 24-35, 43-49
  • Moore, Timothy J. 1989. "Seats and Social Status in the Plautine Theatre." Classical Journal 90: 113-123.
  • Muecke, Francis. 1986. "Plautus and the Theatre of Disguise." Classical Antiquity 5: 216-229.
  • Parker, H. 1989. "Crucially Funny or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus Callidus and Jokes about Torture." Transactions of the American Philological Association 119: 233-46. Repr. in E. Segal, ed. Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. Oxford 2001. 127-37.
  • Rei, Annalisa. 1998. "Villains, Wives & Slaves in the Comedies of Plautus." In Sheila Murnaghan and Sandra R. Joshel eds., Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, 92-108. London: Routledge.
  • Segal, Erich. 1978. Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. 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.

Aulularia

  • Arnott, W. Geoffrey.1988. "The Greek Original of Plautus' Aulularia." Wiener Studien 101: 181-91. *
  • Hunter, Richard L. 1980. "The 'Aulularia' of Plautus and Its Greek Original," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 27: 37-49.*
  • Konstan, David. 1983. "Aulularia: City-State and Individual." Roman Comedy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.*
  • Konstan, David. 1995. "The Miser." Greek Comedy and Ideology. New York: Oxford University Press.*

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