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Erich Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii + 280. ISBN 0-19872193-5 (paper). $29.95.
Contributions:
1. Bernard Knox, "Euripidean Comedy." Originally in Alan Cheuse and Richard Koffler, eds., The Rarer Action: Essays in Honor of Francis Fergusson, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970, pp. 68-96.
2. E. W. Handley, "The Conventions of the Comic Stage and Their Exploitation by Menander." Originally in Entretiens Fondation Hard t 16 (1970)3-26.
3. David Wiles, "Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy." Originally in Themes in Drama: Women in Theater 11 (1989) 31-48.
4. Peter G. McC. Brown, "Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy." Originally in Classical Quarterly 43 (1993) 189-205.
5. N. J. Lowe, "Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos." Originally in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 34 (1987) 126-128.
6. Erich S. Gruen, "Plautus and the Public Stage." Excerpted from E. Gruen, Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy, Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1990, pp. 148-157.
7. Gregor Vogt-Spira, "Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some Considerations." Originally "Traditionen improvisierten Theaters bei Plautus" in B. Zinimennann, ed., Griechisch-romische Komodie und Tragodie. Drama 3, Stuttgart: M&P Verlauf fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1995, pp. 70-93.
8. William S. Anderson, "Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language." Exceipted from W. S. Anderson, Barbarian Play: Plautus'Roman Comedy, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993, pp. 109-118.
9. Erich Segal, "The Menaechmi: Roman Comedy of Errors." Originally in Yale Classical Studies 21 (1969) 77-93.
10. Holt Parker, "Crucially Funny, or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus Callidiis and Jokes about Torture." Originally in Transactions of the American Philological Association 119 (1989) 233-246.
11. David Konstan, "Auhilaria: The City-State and Individual." Originally in D. Konstan, Roman Comedy, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983, pp. 33-46.
12. A. R. Sharrock, "The Art of Deceit: Pseudolus and the Nature of Reading." Originally in Classical Quarterly 46 (1996) 152-174.
13. Timothy Moore, "The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience." Originally in The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pp. 166-180.
14. Florence Dupont, "The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus." Originally "Significance theatrale du double dans I'Amphitryon de Flaute"...