In this article, Milnor analyzes the similarities of the theatrical staging between Plautus' Mostellaria and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman despite the differences between their individual plotlines. Despite the different time periods in which these two plays were written, Milnor looks at these plays side-by-side and highlights that both plays focus on the relationship of a family, the relationship of the outside world versus the events that happen in a family's house, and how these events are relayed to the audience. In Death of a Salesman, the set on stage is the inside of a house where all of the characters interact, even when the plot requires that characters should be in a different, physical place. In Mostellaria and Plautus' other
