http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/plautus Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:48:24 -0400 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:48:24 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/590/the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-a-satiric-perspective-on-courtly-love By David W. Synyard - In Plautus’ Roman Comedies, the stock character of the slave employs mistaken identity or a disguise to deceive his master and others to invert the social order of the play, characterizing the slave as intelligent, cunning, and deceitful. Michael Shapiro writes in Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages that English playwright John Lyly expanded upon the Plautine slave to create the Lylian page, who appears in subplots to create “tonal contrast” with an ironic perspective on the main action by satirizing their masters and authority figures through... Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:44 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/590/the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-a-satiric-perspective-on-courtly-love http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/228/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-as-the-inverted-plautine-comedy By Cassandra A. Clarke - Even though this plot-line is common to Plautus work, he did not find fame as its originator, but as the inventive stage-adaptor who was able to “transform [it, or] New Greek Comedy” into “accessible forms of entertainment, for, and to please his audience” (Beacham, 32). In today’s time, the best example of a modern adaptation of Plautine comedy is the outlandish live performance of  The Rocky Horror Picture Show, since it not only parodies the same comical structure, but through its ad-libbing and shadowing of actors on-screen, also maintains the same Plautine... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:59 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/228/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-as-the-inverted-plautine-comedy