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| Introduction | |
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| Greek Tragedy Origins (Attic and Dorian) of Comedy Old, Middle, and New Attic Comedy | |
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| Roman Drama | |
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| Native Italic drama Earliest Latin writers of drama Plautus' life Plautus' plays: dates, Greek tone, contaminatio | |
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| Roman drama after Plautus Later influence of Roman comedy | |
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| Stage and Production | |
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| Greek theaters Roman theaters and stage setting | |
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| Production: occasions, actors, costumes, music (cantica and diuerbia), instruments Act and scene divisions, didascaliae, argumenta, prologues | |
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| The Miles: date, Greek original, plot, unified by Palaestrio, moralizing passages, entrances and exits, Roman allusions, later influence | |
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| Meters | |
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| Rhythm, ictus and accent, length of syllables, metrical substitution, metrical feet, caesura and diaeresis | |
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| Trochaic septenarius Iambic senarius and septenarius Anapaestic septenarius Index of meters | |
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| Language | |
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| General Prosody: accent and ictus, elision, prodelision of es and est, crasis, hiatus, synizesis, iambic shortening, suppression of final -A? | |
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| Final -s need not make position, shift of ictus on the same forms Words borrowed from Greek Poetic devices: alliteration, assonance, wordplay, metaphors | |
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| Constructions: genitives, parataxis, parenthetical words, directional adverbs in -??, fui for sum in perfect passive Stem variations: -??- for -?<-, -ei- for -1-, -1for 4-, -??- for 4-, -cl-/-pl- for -eul-/-pul-, -??s and -??m for -as and -urn, deuces and cassabant, ap-/op- for ab-lob- Case forms of declensions: mers and lacte, -at for -ae, -urn for -orum, -din the ablative and accusative | |
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| Pronouns: intensive endings, forms of is, quis feminine, qui ablative and adverb, demonstratives with -ce, ecce, ecquis | |
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| Verb stems: contracted perfects, -ss- in perfect, -s- in future and perfect, aio, fio | |
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| Verbal endings: -ier in passive infinitive, -ibo in future, dic, due, fac, and fer, c?<d??, -i- in perfect. c-cm. Forms of sum. | |
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| Text | |
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| Manuscripts and text of Plautus Editions on which this edition is based | |
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| Bibliographical Suggestions | |
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| Bibliography General Translations Theater New Comedy Roman comedy Plautine chronology Plautus' originality Dramatic technique Language Meter Manuscripts Later influence | |
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| Text and Notes | |