Letters in Plautus

The letters in Plautus are potent tools for making and thinking about Plautine comedy inside Plautine comedy. Emilia Barbiero demonstrates that Plautus'' embedded letters reify the internal performance and evince its theatricality by means of the epistolary medium''s script-like ability to precipitate presence in absence. These missives thus serve as emblems of the dramatic script, and in their on...