THE CAPTIVES: THOMAS HEYWOOD'S `WHOLE MONOPOLY OFF MISCHEIFF'.

Argues that the play `The Captives; Or, The Lost Recovered,' by Thomas Heywood, which is a close adaptation of `Rudens' by Plautus, is both a more interesting and a more accomplished play than previous criticism has allowed. Heywood's understanding of the unusual place that the `Rudens' occupied within the canon of New Comedy; Expansion by Heywood of Plautus's exploration of ownership in the ideal city state.