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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... similar analyses of soap operas, see Mumford (1995). 8 E.g., Conte (1994: 19–22), Williams (1982:53–55). 9We should consider the possibility that the multilingual atmosphere of archaic Italy created this ability to think outside any ...
... similar conclusion. Comparing the opening of Menander's Heros and the opening of Plautus' Curculio, he writes, “Plautus' dialogue doesn't settle for being a medium; it is, to an extreme degree, an end in itself” (1922:413 = 1960: 391 ...
... similar to those I noted for Sharrock's argument (above, note 6), namely, these arguments assume that a text we recognize as literary must be characterized by some kind of underlying coherence, no matter what chaos exists at the surface ...
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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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