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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... Farce CHAPTER V Truth Is the Best Disguise: Captivi The Theater of Truth In Dialogue with Farce CONCLUSION The Slave's Image in the Master's Mind Works Cited Index of Plautine Passages General Index ix xiii 17 29 35 40 61 77 84 115 122 ...
... farce and the ideological dialogue between dominant and subordinate. In all four cases, slavery provides the language and imagery through which the broader principles of domination are explored. Although the specific practices, values ...
... farce acknowledges that conflict is permanent and unchanging: the master forgives the slave for tricking him, but neither does he change his policies of mastery nor does the slave learn the lesson of obedience. The end leaves them ...
... the Captivi and Trinummus that not only show a preference for “pseudove ́rite ́” but also manage to overturn the nonteleological conventions of farce. 20Whether this nobility of character coincides with nobility of birth 12 CHAPTER I.
... farce, which reverses normal hierarchies through the fantasy of the slave as hero. This perspective reverses the identities of those in power and even exalts virtues exactly opposed to those exalted by the idealizing perspective ...
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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 |
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