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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... turn help us to understand dialogism in Plautine comedy. Stylization is Roman comedy's most striking characteristic, as Wright puts. 7To risk a comparison that may seem irrelevant to some readers, I might point to the American TV ...
... the concept of comic heroism and its use of the theater (rather than real life) as the implicit referent of “life” in Plautus is the best analysis of this phenomenon. 24 Bettini (1982). These functions in turn have great effect 14 CHAPTER ...
... turn have great effect on the surface details of the particular play. For example, a plot aimed at the tricking of a rival or a pimp will always stress a linear trajectory, in which the trickery is not rescinded at the end but is ...
... tradition) came to be so familiar with the viewpoints of slaves and so sympathetic to it. Did Naevius and Caecilius also take a turn at that mill? 28The prologue to the Poenulus (esp. 17–35) has been seen 18 CHAPTER I.
... turn, supports the social practice of treating slaves as instruments and objects. But the slave's status as a subject is just as important for the dramatic uses of slavery as his or her status as an object. One of the most powerful ...
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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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