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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... important festivals of Roman civic religion, and the audience was made up overwhelmingly of citizens. Therefore, I consider it more likely that Plautus' comedy was part of what the political theorist James Scott calls “the public ...
... important element of my overall argument, I believe that slavery 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 ...
... important period in the life of this project has been its West Coast maturation, when it had the good fortune to be read and critiqued by Mark Griffith, Leslie Kurke, Erich Gruen, W. S. Anderson, Maurizio Bettini, William Fitzgerald ...
... important than the fact of being a head of household senex amator (pl. senes amatores) — such an old man as above, in love adulescens (pl. adulescentes) — young man meretrix (pl. meretrices) — prostitute pseudomeretrix (pl ...
... important ways, is not a play that explores these psychological and social tensions. This monody is preceded by a farcical slapstick battle between two slaves, in which the slave who is advocating immorality clearly has the upper hand ...
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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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