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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... function as “a kind of selfhypnosis within ruling groups to buck up their courage, improve their cohesion, display their power . . .” (1990: 67). My project in this book is to describe the investment socially dominant Romans had in ...
... functions in Plautus as a medium for the fantasies and anxieties of the mostly citizen audience, much as slaves themselves functioned as instruments through which masters achieved their desires. In resisting the temptation to read the ...
... functions. Furthermore, these explanations assume a neat boundary between naturalistic Greek comedy and farcical Roman ... function in Plautus. What is needed is not a finer gauge for separating the genuine Plautus from the distracting ...
... function could such a ragtag dramatic form have played in the civic life of the Romans, who gave these frivolous plays a place in some of their most important religious festivals?5 Especially since the two modes of comedy that ...
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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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