Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind Book

	Introduction to the Series
	Preface
	Preface to the Second Edition
I	Introduction: The Performance Dimension	1
II	Epidicus	15
III	The Ruse of Persia - or - The Story-Telling Slaves	31
IV	Six Authors in Search of a Character - Asinaria as Guerrilla Theatre	45
V	The Pilots of Penance - or - The Slave of Lust	57
VI	The Double-Dealer - or - The Skin-Changer	77
VII	Words, Words, Words	97
VIII	Convention and Reaction	121
IX	Playwrighting as Heroism	139
App. I	Plautine Negotiations: the Poenulus Prologue Unpacked	149
App. II	Improvisation in Plautus	163
App. III	The Dates of Plautus' Curculio and Trinummus Reconsidered	175
App. IV	Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre	181
	Bibliography	203
	Index Locorum	207
	Index Nominum et Rerum	213