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Lively and critically aware, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad's A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio is the new reference text on the play. Curculio follows the efforts of the title character to trick a sex-trafficker into handing over an enslaved woman to the young man infatuated with her instead of to the soldier who's paid for her—and will turn out to be her long-lost brother. As Plautus' shortest comedy, Curculio has proven to be a desirable text for university performances. The play exemplifies Plautus' style, with a blend of erotic, deception, and recognition plotlines, plus a wide range of archetypal characters. Gellar-Goad's commentary is the complete package, with introductions to themes, content, humor, meter, and syntax; notes on matters of performance, interpretation, and social history; and a text with aids to scansion and clarifying stage directions.
This up-to-date, authoritative commentary on the play will prove useful to directors and actors and will readily introduce students to the joys of Roman comedy.
Contents
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sermo Plautinus
Plautine Meters
Sigla: a key to the symbols in this text of Curculio
Schema metrorum: the meters of Curculio
Text
Commentary
Appendix: scansion of the canticum of Plautus' Curculio (lines 96-157)
Works Cited
Index Locorum
General Index
