acting styles
antilabê
comic timing
delivery
See also under individual plays, metrical structure of
actors
boy
maximum number on stage at once
social status of
star parts
altar, stage
Ambivius Turpio see Turpio
angiportum
arc structure see also under individual plays, metrical structure of
Atellanae (‘Atellan Farces’) 5
scripted
audience
boys in
emotional engagement of
segregation of
size of
Brook, Peter
Caecilius, Plocium (‘The Necklace’)
calendar, misalignment of
cancelli (barriers)
choragus
cinema
Circus Flaminius
Comitium
use of Rostra
commedia dell’arte
costumes
renting
use of padding
see also under doubling, ‘lightning changes’
Craig, E. Gordon
Diphilus see under Plautus, Commorientes
disguise
doors
doublets in performance see improvisation
doubling
impact of small parts
in Greek theatre
in Menaechmi
in Pseudolus
in Rome
‘lightning changes’
eavesdropping
elastic gags see under improvisation
Elizabethan theatre practices
fabulae
Atellanae see Atellanae
Palliatae see Roman Comedy
Praetextae
Tabernariae
Togatae
focus
split-focus scenes
forum Romanum
Gaius Naevius see Naevius
gesture
gladiators
Goldoni, Carlo
Herodas
improvisation
degrees of scriptedness
elastic gags
in mime
musical
performance doublets
instauratio
jazz
Johnstone, Keith
Kabuki
Lecoq, Jacques
Lefèvre, Eckard
lex Oppia
Livius Andronicus
ludi (‘games’)
Apollinares
funebres
Plebeii
magni
Megalenses
Romani
votivi
administered by magistrates
competition at
nontheatrical
secondary performance venues
timetable for production
Marx Brothers
masks
ethnic (African)
ethnic (Syrian)
eyebrows
eyepatches
in Atellanae
in fifth-century Athens
in fourth-century Athens
in Roman comedy
Leno
not tied to character ethos
‘Pseudokorê’
senex
servus callidus
twins see also under Pollux, acting styles, and individual plays
Menander
adaptated by Caecilius
Adelphoe B
chorus
Dis Exapatôn
monostichoi
Perinthia
playwriting technique
metatheatre x
metre
cantica mixtis modis
isochronicity
specific metres:
Miles, name of
Miller, Glenn
mime
adultery theme
and Euripides
costume
improvisation in
masks
performance
prosimetric
sex of performer
size of troupe
stage properties of
variety of performance styles
music
in Greek New Comedy see also under tibicen and individual plays, metrical structure of
Naevius
Noh drama
non-naturalistic setting
obscenity
pace
palliatae see also Roman comedy
pantomime
Parker, Charlie
Pellio, T. Publilius
phallus
Phlyax plays
Plautus, Titus Maccius
acts in own plays?
adaptation of Greek original
dating of
epitaph
number of plays
posthumous production of plays
selling of plays
Amphitruo
Asinaria
Aulularia
Bacchides
Captivi
Casina
Cistellaria
Commorientes (‘Partners in Death’)
Curculio
Epidicus
Lenones Gemini (‘The Twin Pimps’)
Menaechmi
Mercator
Miles Gloriosus
Mostellaria
Persa
Poenulus
Pseudolus
masks in
Rudens
Stichus
Trigemini (‘Triplets’)
Trinummus
Truculentus
Vidularia
Pollux, Julius
list of New Comic masks
praeco (‘herald’)
prologue
properties, stage
money bags
oversize
Quintilian
Quintus Ennius
rehearsal
Richman, Jonathan and the Modern Lovers
Roman Comedy
‘Choruses’ in
cook in
curtain call
dialect jokes
female characters in
length in performance
opportunities for performance
seriousness of
‘stock’ character types
theatrical run
use of twins
Roscius
routines, comic
and literacy
servus currens
script
last-minute revisions
use of parts
servus currens see under routines
set
Slater, Niall
song see under metre
stage
backstage communication
empty
Latin term for
stage left and stage right
stakes
status see under Johnstone, Keith
Terentius Afer, Publius (‘Terence’)
contaminatio
and Palliatae
relationship to Ambivius Turpio
Adelphoe
Andria
Eunuchus
Heauton Timoroumenos
Hecyra
Phormio
theatre
evolution of
of Marcellus
of Pompey
permanent
tibicen (‘piper’)
subcontracting of
tibicina, breasts of
see also under Plautus, Stichus
tightrope walkers
time, elasticity of
tone
Turpio, L. Ambivius
translation practice, Roman
troupe
finances
size of
underwear, Roman
unscripted theatre see improvisation
vase-painting, South Italian
vela (‘sails’), theatrical use of
violence, on stage
voice see also acting styles delivery
wall painting, Roman
Warner Brothers cartoons
Wilde, Oscar
Wile, E. Coyote
Zwierlein, Otto