Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companion to Plautus Menaechmi by Sophie Klein
Sophie Klein, who received her PhD from the Department of Classical Studies in 2013 and is now a Senior Lecturer of the Core Curriculum, has written and released a companion to Plautus’ Menaechmi, the ancient work that inspired such adaptations as The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, as part of the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series.
Professor Klein has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the award for Outstanding Teaching Fellow, and the Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award here at Boston University, both in the same year. She has shared her expertise on Greek and Roman drama in lectures on Medea, Euripides’ Bacchae and Trojan Women, and Sophocles’ Ajax. Her newest work deconstructs the language, tropes, and devices of Plautus’s influential comedy, and delves into how the play reflects traditional values and the class and gender roles of Roman society. The book is available now.