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Articles suitable for the summary/reaction papers are listed in the last section. Many 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 and Terence

  • 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.
  • Forehand, Walter. 1985. Terence. Twayne's World Authors Series. Boston: Twayne.
  • 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.

Terence, Eunuchus *

  • Barsby, J.A. 2001. "Problems of Adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence." In Segal, Erich, ed. Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Dessen, Cynthia S. "The Figure of the Eunuch in Terence's Eunuchus." Helios 22.2 (1995) 123-37.
  • Frangoulidis, Stavros A. "Modes of metatheatre: theatricalisation and detheatricalisation in Terence Eunuchus." Liverpool Classical Monthly 18.10 (1993) 146-151.
  • Frangoulidis, S.A. "The Soldier as a Storyteller in Terence's Eunuchus." Mnemosyne 47.5 (1994) 586-.
  • Frangoulidis, Stavros A. "Performance and Improvisation in Terence's Eunuchus." Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica 48 (1994) 121-130.
  • Gilula, D. "The Concept of the Bona Meretrix: A Study of Terence's Courtesans." Rivista di filologia e d'instruzione classica 108 (1980) 142-65.
  • Goldberg, Sander M. 1986. "Contaminatio." Understanding Terence. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 91-97, 105-122. (an interpretation of the play)
  • James, Sharon L. "From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence's Hecyra and Eunuchus." Helios 25.1 (1998) 31-48.
  • Konstan, David. 1986. "Love in Terence's Eunuch: The Origins of Erotic Subjectivity." American Journal of Philology 107: 359-93. (about Phaedria and Chaerea)
  • Leisner-Jensen, Mogens. "Vis comica: Consummated Rape in Greek and Roman New Comedy." Classica et Mediaevalia 53 (2002) 173-196.
  • Ludwig, Walther. "The Originality of Terence and his Greek Models." In Segal, Erich, ed. Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence. New York: Oxford University Press. 205-15.
  • Martin, R.H. "A not-so-minor character in Terence's Eunuchus." Classical Philology 90 (1995) 139-51. (Pythias)
  • Packman, Z.M. "Adulescens as virgo: A note on Terence's Eunuch 908" Akroterion 42.1 (1997) 30-35.
  • Philippides, Katerina "Terence's Eunuchus: Elements of the Marriage Ritual in the Rape Scene." Mnemosyne 48.3 (1995) 272-84.
  • Smith, L.P. "Audience Response to Rape: Chaerea in Terence Eunuchus." Helios 21.1 (1994) 21-38.

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