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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Kathleen McCarthy. interaction of two very different modes of comedy, a naturalistic mode and a farcical mode. Not only does each of these modes operate with a distinctive set of plot devices, character types, and stylistic preferences ...
... mode of naturalistic comedy nor the cynical mode of farcical comedy ever completely frees itself from the other; the two are engaged in an ongoing dialogue. This book is an attempt to interpret the literary and the social effects of ...
... mode of comedy, this mode too will sidestep the need for any radical changes in the household, but where naturalistic comedy avoids changes be “revealing” the conflict of values to have been illusory all along, farce acknowledges that ...
... mode represents itself in response to the other, with what Bakhtin calls “a sideways glance” (1981: 61). The essence of dialogism is not a polemical argument but rather the self-consciousness of discovering how one's own language and ...
... mode. The foundation of my argument is that the literary aesthetic that shaped Plautus' plays was in the strictest sense, “traditional.” The fullest exploration of Plautine comedy as the product of a traditional dramatic style is John ...
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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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