Titus Maccius Plautus, The Braggart Warrior Mimeographed

mimeograph on off-white paper printed one side

Black mountain college presents THE BRAGGART WARRIOR (miles glorious)
A play in five acts by Titus Macclus Plautus (c. 245-c. 184 B.C.)
Scene: a street in Ephesus in front of the adjoining houses of Pyrogopolynices and Periplectomenus
Action: the action of the play is continuous. The curtains will be drawn, however, at the end of act II, at the end of act III, and at the end of act V.
Characters in the play
PYRGOPOLYNICES, the braggart warrior MARVIN DANIELS
ARTOTROUS, his parasite WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN
PALAESTRO, a slave of Pleusicleus ROBERT SWACKHAMER
PERIPLECTOMENUS, an old gentlemen of Ephesus LUCY SWIFT
SCELEDRUS, slave of Pyrogopolynices CURTISS COWAN
PHILOCOMASTUM, a girl abducted by Pyrogopolynices SUZANNE TEASDALE
PLEUSICLES, an Athenian, in love with Philocomastum MAX PAUL
LURCIO, a slave boy belonging to Pyrgopolynices DICK BUSH-BROWN
ACROTELETIUM, a courtesan ROXANE DINKOWITZ
WILPHIDIPPA, her maid SUE SCHAUFFLER
A SLAVE BOY, belonging to Periplectomenus JUDITH CHERNOFF
CARIO, the cook of Periplectomenus JOAN KEISER
Setting designed by CURTISS COWAN, constructed by molly gregor and Curtis cowan
Costumes and makeup designed by ATI GROPIUS
Directing by ROBERT WUNSCH
NOTE: It would be difficult to overestimate the discipline in plot construction which Plautus and the other great Roman writer of comedies, Terence, imposed upon the writers of the regular comic drama in England. They introduced the precedent for civil character types, as opposed to the ethical types of the moralities and interludes. They introduced the parasite or deceitful servant, who became a stock character with the Elizabethans. They were also, in large measure, responsible for a number of less tangible, though no less evident characteristics of English comedy; the general atmosphere of trickery and intrigue, the braggart soldier, the mistaken identity motif, the popularity of puns, the use of the gull—usually a rustic character newly come to the city and the preference for a highly involved plot sequence.