This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to... more

This open access edition explores the reception and afterlife of the Alcestis, as well as its main t... more

This open access edition explores the reception and afterlife of the Alcestis, as well as its main t... more

. Using a reception-based performance criticism, Niall Slater elucidates the comic effectiveness of the earliest surviving...... more

Plautus was Ancient Rome’s greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his... more

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes’ Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the mos... more

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes’ Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the mos... more

This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes’ Wasps(422 BCE), which is arguably one... more

"Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire... more

Plautus’ Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculo... more

This collection brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experien... more

In this first introduction to Plautus’ Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided thro... more

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famo... more

In this first introduction to Plautus’ Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided thro... more

This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander’s comedies to Epitrepont... more

This is the first book-length study of Plautus’ shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which... more

Plautus’ Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculo... more

This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to... more

This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander’s comedies to Epitrepont... more

This is the first book-length study of Plautus’ shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which... more

Matthew Wright brings Menander’s Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and h... more

Matthew Wright brings Menander’s Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and h... more

A comprehensive look at all aspects of classical Greek comedy. Aside from the well-known plays of Ar... more

A comprehensive look at all aspects of classical Greek comedy. Aside from the well-known plays of Ar... more

First book-length study of ancient Rome’s second-shortest play, with the most intricate plot that su... more

This volume is the first book-length introduction to Plautus’ Cistellaria (The Jewelry Box), offerin... more

"Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire... more

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famo... more

Three foundational Roman poets. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin conti... more

Plautus’ Poenulus (or Little Carthaginian) is a staggering work. Performed in the years after Rome’s... more