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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... Rebellion Meets Reconciliation The Cast of Characters CHAPTER III Love's Labour's Lost: Casina A Rake's (Lack of) Progress Comic Husbands and Wives CHAPTER IV A Kind of Wild Justice: Persa The Three Faces of Toxilus The Limits of Farce ...
... rebellion and the master's reassertion of control in the finale. Thus, the doubleness of the literary modes of Plautine comedy serves the bifurcated interests of the audience. After an introductory chapter, in which the arguments ...
... rebellion the attitude that could be summed up in the Latin word malitia, a nottoo-distant cousin of English “malice.” Like the more sentimental mode of comedy, this mode too will sidestep the need for any radical changes in the ...
... rebellion.3 But even this quick sketch of the Mostellaria shows that neither of these two views can account completely for the overall effect of this play, in which both comic modes perform positive functions. Furthermore, these ...
... rebellion in their own lives, as well as anxiety about the possible rebellion of slaves, this form of comedy both promotes and undermines rebellious fantasies. What I am advocating in the following pages is a way of grappling with 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 |
Works Cited | 215 |
Index of Plautine Passages | 221 |
General Index | 227 |
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