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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... human error, and if that is so, then the way things are must be the way they ought to be. Opposed to this moral perspective is that of farce, which reverses normal hierarchies through the fantasy of the slave as hero. This perspective ...
... human being and yet was denied recognition as such. He writes (1980:99–100): “I cannot discover that, apart from individual exceptions (and they are extremely rare in the available documentation) awareness of this ambiguity produced ...
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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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