Notes on contributors; Introduction; A 2020 VISION OF PLAUTUS; 1. The State of Roman Theater, c. 200 BCE -- Timothy J. Moore / 2. Plautus and Greek Drama -- Sebastiana Nervegna / 3. Stages and Stagecraft -- Anne H. Groton / 4. Actors and Audience -- Isabella Tardin Cardoso / 5.nouo modo nouom aliquid inuentum: Plautine Priorities - -- David Christenson / 6. Plays of Mistaken Identity -- Costas Panayotakis / 7. Plautus and the Marriage Plot -- Sharon L. James / 8. Stock Characters and Stereotypes -- Shawn O'Bryhim / 9. The Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of Deception -- Ferdinand Stürner / 10. To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the Meretrix -- Catherine Connors / 11. The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated:Stock Characters in Evolution -- Barbara K. Gold / 12. Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and Power -- Anne Feltovich / 13. Plotting the Romance: Plautus' Rudens, Cistellaria, and Poenulus Stavros Frangoulidis / 14. Tragicomedy and Paratragedy. Plautusʼs Amphitruo, Captivi, and Rudens Walter Stockert / 15. The Language of Plautus -- Peter Barrios-Lech / 16. Metatheater and Improvisation in Plautus -- Christopher Bungard / 17. Music and Meter in Plautus -- T. H.M. Gellar-Goad / 18.Comic Technique in Plautus's Asinaria and Casina Martin Dinter / 19. Plautus and the Topography of his World -- Sophia Papaioannou / 20. Warfare and Imperialism in and around Plautus -- Paul J. Burton / 21. Religion in and around Plautus -- Seth A. Jeppesen / 22. Gender and Sexuality in Plautus -- Serena S. Witzke / 23. Owners and Slaves in and around Plautus -- Amy Richlin / 24. Slave Labor in Plautus -- Roberta Stewart / 25. Plautus and his Dramatic Successors in the Republican Period -- Gesine Manuwald / 26.Alii rhetorica tongent: Plautus and Public Speech -- Emilia A. Barbiero / 27. The Textual Tradition of Plautus -- Rolando Ferri / 28. The Medieval Reception of Plautus's Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis Blesensis -- Antony Augoustakis / 29. From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486-1530) -- Gianni Guastella / 30. Plautus in Early Modern England -- George Fredric Franko / 31. Reception Today: Theater and Movies -- Rodrigo T. Gonçalves / 32. Trends in Plautus Translation -- James Tatum