For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstrea
Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into thei
The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept