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Excerpt from The Rudens of PlautusIn one respect the play is of especial interest: name ly, in the illustration it contains of the native Italian dramatic farce. The banter between Labrax and Charmides, in the second act, is an excellent example of what must have been a salient feature of this early development in the field of comedy. It would be hard to find a better illustration of action visible to those on the stage but not to the audience...

Excerpt from The Rudens of Plautus There are some questions concerning the ancient production of a Latin comedy that can probably never be solved. Most of these are connected with the prob lem of the music and the rendering of the lyrical metres. It is known that some of the lines written for musical accompaniment (cantica) were sung, either on or off the stage, that others were recited or chanted, against a background of music played by the ...