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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... give a truer description of the Plautine genre. First, rather than seeing this genre as one of these two modes with the (welcome or unwelcome) intrusion of the other, I propose that the genre consists precisely of the combination of ...
... give a more detailed picture of the stylistic, thematic, and dramatic traits that characterize each mode. The foundation of my argument is that the literary aesthetic that shaped Plautus' plays was in the strictest sense, “traditional ...
... give the people what they want.” Examples of scholarly analysis of sit-coms include E. Taylor (1989), Jones (1992); for similar analyses of soap operas, see Mumford (1995). 8 E.g., Conte (1994: 19–22), Williams (1982:53–55). 9We should ...
... gives us away to characterize the differing moral/ideological stances of the two modes. The moral perspective associated with naturalistic comedy affirms the real contemporary social code by exalting those who exhibit the virtues of ...
... gives ample evidence and a thorough description of this pattern. 23Wright (1974: 47–48, 105–6) on the existence of clever slaves in other authors of Roman comedy; Fraenkel (1922: 231–50 = 1960: 223–41) on the clever slave as the ...
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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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