Roman Comedy XV: Plautus’s Epidicus, or If Gilbert & Sullivan Met Plautus

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inRoman Comedy, The Romans

Gilbert and Sullivan wish they’d come up with plots as complicated as the one in Plautus’s Epidicus.

Discussion Prompts
  1. If directing this play today, how would you handle the complicated plot?
  2. The four women are some of the cleverest characters in this play. Discuss.
  3. Why isn’t Periphanes aware that the soldiers are returning from Thebes?
  4. The typical directing questions: vision, setting, dream cast, etc.?

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I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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