SLAVE THEATER IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: Plautus and Popular Comedy.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, with a little lifting to the laminate along the spine tail and is otherwise free from fading, loss or tears.

'Surveying the extant fragments of early comedy and the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance.' (publisher's blurb).