Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine ComedyPrinceton University Press, 10/01/2009 - 248 páginas What pleasures did Plautus' heroic tricksters provide their original audience? How should we understand the compelling mix of rebellion and social conservatism that Plautus offers? Through a close reading of four plays representing the full range of his work (Menaechmi, Casina, Persa, and Captivi), Kathleen McCarthy develops an innovative model of Plautine comedy and its social effects. She concentrates on how the plays are shaped by the interaction of two comic modes: the socially conservative mode of naturalism and the potentially subversive mode of farce. It is precisely this balance of the naturalistic and the farcical that allows everyone in the audience--especially those well placed in the social hierarchy--to identify both with and against the rebel, to feel both the thrill of being a clever underdog and the complacency of being a securely ensconced authority figure. |
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Kathleen McCarthy. Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy Kathleen McCarthy PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright 2000 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton.
... Plautine comedy / Kathleen McCarthy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-691-04888-6 (cl. : alk. paper) 1. Plautus, Titus Maccius—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Master and servant in literature. 3 ...
... Plautus. The two prevailing views, though often not explicitly articulated by the scholars who hold them, have been that the clever slave in comedy is the product either of masters' patronizing tolerance (letting the slaves have a ...
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The Ties That Bind Menaechmi | 35 |
Loves Labours Lost Casina | 77 |
A Kind of Wild Justice Persa | 122 |
Truth Is the Best Disguise Captivi | 167 |
The Slaves Image in the Masters Mind | 211 |
Works Cited | 215 |
Index of Plautine Passages | 221 |
General Index | 227 |
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