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Book Chapter
Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce in Roman Comic Drama
2010
Overview
In this chapter, I shall examine three plays of surviving Roman comedy that deviate from the usual paradigm of making marriage or sexual union the goal: Plautus’sAmphitryoandMenaechmiand Terence’sHecyra. In each case, the dramatist focuses on a marriage already in existence and puts that marriage under pressure by bringing close the specter of divorce, which in effect shifts the goal from achieving marriage to retrieving it. In examining the mechanisms and implications of this shift from the usual paradigm, it becomes clear that all three plays break the rules offabula palliata(New Comedy in its
