Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Burmeister's Latinity: Inversion, Puns, Spielerei -- 1.1. Inversion -- 1.2. Puns and the Isidorian Style -- 1.3. Spielerei -- 2. The Life of Burmeister -- 3. Burmeister's Works -- 3.1. Published Works in Chronological Order -- 3.2. Doubtful, Apocryphal, and Spurious Works -- 3.3. Assessment of Pre-Plautine Works -- 3.4. Mater-Virgo (1621) -- 3.4.1. Sources -- 3.4.2. Contents -- 3.5. Susanna/Casina (1622-1624?) -- 3.6. Asinaria (1625) -- 3.7. Aulularia (1629) -- 3.7.1. The Staging -- 3.7.2. The Intercalary Scenes -- 3.7.3. Themes -- 3.7.4. Anachronisms and Soldiers' Depredations -- 3.7.5. Puns in Aulularia -- 3.7.6. Prosody and Versification -- 3.7.7. Deficient Verses and Principles of Emendation -- 4. Principles of this Edition -- 4.1. Aulularia -- 4.2. Mater-Virgo -- 4.3. Quotations from Plautus, the Bible and English Translations -- Sigla -- Aulularia - Text and Translation -- Mater-Virgo - Text and Translation -- Appendix - Burmeister's Laureation Certificate -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Greek words (see also Index Jocorum) -- Index Locorum Biblicorum -- Index Jocorum.