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Articles for Presentations

Articles treating the Amphityuo and Miles Gloriosus can be presented in most classes when we are reading the plays; other articles have been assignned a suggested presentation date; the dates of articles marked with "[FLEX]" can easily be presented on a different date.

Articles in bold have been spoken for.

Approx. Date

Dupont, Florence. 2001. “The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus’ Amphitruo” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 176-189.

Forehand, Walter E. “Irony in Plautus’ Amphitruo.” AJP 92(4): 633-651. [available through JSTOR]

Slater, Niall W. 2001. “Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 189-205.

9/26-10/26


Duckworth, George E. 1935. “The Structure of the Miles Gloriosus.” CP 30(3): 228-246. [available through JSTOR]

Hanson, John Arthur. 1965. “The Glorious Military” in Roman Drama. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 51-85.

Haywood, Richard M. “On the Unity of the Miles Gloriosus.” The American Journal of Philology 65(4): 382-386. [available through JSTOR]

Williams, Gordon. “Evidence for Plautus’ Workmanship in the Miles Gloriosus.” Hermes 86: 79-105.

11/7-12/7

Segal, Erich. 1968. “From Forum to Festival” in Roman Laughter. Camgridge: Harvard University Press: 42-69.

9/14
or other

Konstan, Daniel. 2001. “Aulularia: City-State and Individual” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 139-149.

9/19

Marshall, C. W. 1999. "Quis Hic Loquitur?: Plautine Delivery and the “Double Aside.” SyllClass 10. [a theory of masked performance]

Gruen, Erich. 2001. “Plautus and the Public Stage” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 83-95.

9/26-9/28

Ludwig, Walther. 2001. “The Originality of Terence and His Greek Models” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 205-216. [FLEX]

Slater, Niall W. 1985. “Convention and Reaction” in Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 147-167. [FLEX]

10/3

Vogt-Spira, Gregor. 2001. “Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some Considerations” in Oxford Readings in Menanader, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 95-107.

10/10-10/12

Beacham, Richard C. 1992. “An Audience in Search of a Theatre” in The Roman Theatre and Its Audience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 1-26. [FLEX]

Moore, Timothy J. 2001. “The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 161-176. [FLEX]

10/24-10/26

Sharrock, A.R. 2001. “The Art of Deceit: Pseudolus and the Nature of Reading” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 149-161. [FLEX]

Moore, Timothy. 1999. "Facing the Music: Character and Musical Accompaniment in Roman Comedy." SyllClass 10.

11/2

Arnott, W. Geoffrey. “Phormio parasitus: A study in Dramatic Methods of Characterization” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 257-272.

Parker, Holt. 2001. “Crucially Funny, or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus callidus and Jokes About Torture” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 127-138.

Stace, C. “The Slaves of Plautus.” G&R 15(1): 64-77. [available through JSTOR]

11/7-11/16

Barsyby, J.A. “Problems of Adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 230-250.

11/14

Leigh, Matthew. 2004. “City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies” in Comedy and the Rise of Rome. New York: Oxford University Press: 98-157. [FLEX]

11/21
McCarthy, Kathleen. 2000. “The Ties That Bind: Menaechmi” in Slaves, Masterss, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 35-76.
12/7

Segal, Erich. 2001. “The Menaechmi: Roman Comedy of Errors” in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press: 115-127.

12/12