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A Companion to Plautus
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: A 2020 Vision of Plautus -- This Companion -- Retrospection: The Background of Roman Comedy -- Introspection: The Analysis of Plautine Scripts -- Circumspection: The Interaction of Plautine...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newark
: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
, 2020
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| Series: | Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser
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| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: A 2020 Vision of Plautus -- This Companion -- Retrospection: The Background of Roman Comedy -- Introspection: The Analysis of Plautine Scripts -- Circumspection: The Interaction of Plautine Plays and Roman Society -- Prospection: The Transmission and Reception of Plautus -- Note -- References -- Chapter 1 The State of Roman Theater c. 200 bce -- Sources -- A Well-Established and Cosmopolitan Tradition -- Forms -- Dance to the Tibia -- Improvisatory Farce -- Scripted Drama -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 2 Plautus and Greek Drama -- Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon in Hellenistic Greece -- Traveling Plays: Greek New Comedies in Sicily and South Italy -- Plautus's Bacchides and Menander's Dis Exapaton -- Celebrating Plautus in Antiquity -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 3 Stages and Stagecraft -- Opposition to a Permanent Theater in Rome -- The Appeal of Temporary Wooden Theaters -- The Comic Potential of the Cavea -- Visualizing the Stage and the Performers -- The Aural Dimension of a Performance -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 4 Actors and Audience -- Plautine Actors and Their Fans -- No Pain, No Gain: The Actors' Life Beyond the Stage -- The Actor's Craft -- A Uorsipellis Audience -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 5 Nouo Modo Nouom Aliquid Inuentum: Plautine Priorities -- From Athens to Rome -- A New Manner of Plot(ting) -- A Fresh Roman Concoction -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 6 Plays of Mistaken Identity -- Plautus and the Tradition of Mistaken‐Identity Plays -- Structuring a Series of Misconceptions in Menaechmi and Amphitruo -- Misjudging Alcmena -- Vision, Knowledge, Insanity, and Identity Crisis -- Conclusion -- Notes. Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 7 Plautus and the Marriage Plot -- Menander, the Father of New Comedy -- Plautus, the Outsider Behind the Roman Stage -- Wedding-Impossible Plays -- Existing Marriages -- Wedding Plays -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 8 Stock Characters and Stereotypes -- Stereotypes and Stock Characters -- Traditional Plots -- Case Study: Captivi -- Conclusion: Stock Characters and Society -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 9 The Servus Callidus in Charge: Plays of Deception -- Family Affairs -- Intrigues and Endings -- The Trickster's Skills -- Tradition and Innovation -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 10 To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the Meretrix -- The Bacchides and Their Underworld -- Phronesium and Her Underworld in Truculentus -- Life and Death and the House of Erotium in Menaechmi -- Cult, Identity, and Memory at the (Roman) Hell-Mouth -- Note -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 11 The Wife in Charge, the Husband Humiliated: Stock Characters in Evolution -- Preliminaries -- The Heart of the Matter -- Afterword: The Play's the Thing -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 12 Archetypal Character Studies: Masculinity and Power -- Archetypes of Excess -- Self-Control and Manliness -- In Which the Haughty Are Exposed by Their Subordinates -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 13 Plotting the Romance: Plautus' Rudens, Cistellaria, and Poenulus -- Rudens -- Cistellaria -- Poenulus -- Conclusion -- Note -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 14 Tragicomedy and Paratragedy: Plautuss Amphitruo, Captivi, and Rudens -- Introduction: Tragicomedy and Paratragedy in Plautus? -- Amphitruo -- Captivi -- Rudens -- Summary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 15 The Language of Plautus -- Introduction. A Comparison of Three Passages: Menander's Fabula Incerta 8 (Arnott), Plautus's Curculio, and Turpilius's Epiclerus -- Passage from Fabula Incerta 8 (Arnott) -- Passage from Plautus's Curculio (1-12, Leo's edition) -- Passage from Turpilius's Epiclerus (50-53, p. 106 R3) -- Comparison of Rhetorical and Stylistic Features -- Noteworthy Linguistic Features -- Sociolects -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 16 Metatheater and Improvisation in Plautus -- Metatheater: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Theatricality in the Real World -- Improvisation: Or, the Give and Take of the World -- Improvisation, Scripting, and the Theater of Life -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 17 Music and Meter in Plautus -- What Was the Musical Performance of Roman Comedy Like? -- How Does Plautus Use Music and Meter to Shape His Comedies? -- Case Study: Bacchides -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 18 Comic Technique in Plautus's Asinaria and Casina -- Verbal Techniques -- Physical Techniques -- Verbal and Physical Elements with Audience Engagement -- Animal Imagery, Sexual Jokes, and a Hierarchy of Humor -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 19 Plautus and the Topography of His World -- Where in the (Greek) World Are We? -- When Plautus's Greeks Speak Like Romans, and Its Significance for Their Roman Audience -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 20 Warfare and Imperialism in and Around Plautus -- Warfare and Militarism -- Warfare and Contemporary Politics -- Warfare and Cultural Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 21 Religion in and Around Plautus -- Introduction: Text and Performance -- The Religious Context of Plautine Comedy -- Methods of Examining Religion in Plautus. Poenulus: Hanno and the Danger of Foreign Religion -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 22 Gender and Sexuality in Plautus -- Introduction -- Free Men -- Younger Men -- Older Men -- Soldiers -- Free Women -- Younger Women -- Older Women -- Meretrices -- Enslaved Men -- Servi -- Enslaved Women -- Ancillae and Enslaved Meretrices -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 23 Owners and Slaves in and Around Plautus -- Historical Context -- The Cast of Characters -- Enacting Freedom -- Scholarly Controversies and Future Directions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 24 Slave Labor in Plautus -- Commodification of Female Slaves -- Harsh and Unremitting Servile Labor -- Slave Labor and Freedom -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 25 Plautus and His Dramatic Successors in the Republican Period -- Introduction -- Plautus's Standing in the Republican Period -- Successors in Plautus's Comic Genre -- Caecilius Statius -- Turpilius -- Terence -- Successors in Other Comic Genres -- Fabula Togata -- Fabula Atellana -- Successors as Scholar‐Writers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 26 Alii Rhetorica Tongent: Plautus and Public Speech -- Introduction -- "Oratory and Plautus" and "Plautus and Oratory" -- Persuasion in the Prologue -- Plautus in the "Classroom" and in the "Courtroom" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 27 The Textual Tradition of Plautus -- Plautus and Republican Scholarship -- The Second-Century Edition and the Antiquarian Revival of Early Latin -- The Archetype of the Direct Tradition and the Fifth‐Century Division into Two Branches -- The Early Printed Editions and the Nineteenth‐Century "Rediscovery" of Plautus -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 28 The Medieval Reception of Plautus's Aulularia: Querolus and Vitalis Blesensis -- Querolus. Vitalis Blesensis -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 29 From Ferrara to Venice: Plautus in Vernacular and Early Italian Comedy (1486-1530) -- Ercole d'Este's Project -- The New Performative Context -- Scripts and Texts -- From Ancient Masks to Those of Commedia dell'Arte -- Vernacular Plautus in Venice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 30 Plautus in Early Modern England -- Performances Versus Books -- Morality, Fragmentation, and Impersonation -- Plautus in Shakespearean Performance -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 31 Reception Today: Theater and Movies -- Contemporary Receptions of Plautus -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) -- Alfonso Sastre's Los Dioses y los Cuernos (1995) -- Literary and Metatheatrical Stage Directions -- Anachronisms -- Intertextuality -- Metatheater -- Note -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 32 Trends in Plautus Translation -- Introduction -- Exemplary Translators -- Translation and Its Politics -- An Exemplary Crossover -- The Sound of Muzak -- Plautus's Most Plautine Translator -- Further Reading -- References -- Index -- Index Locorum Plautinorum -- EULA. "This reference resource will offer a comprehensive survey of the plays of Rome's most popular dramatist. The surviving scripts of Titus Maccius Plautus (along with those of his successor Terence) provide the primary source of the Western Comic theatrical tradition for the Middle Ages, Renaissance, modern era, and today's newer media of movies and television sitcoms. The Companion will explore the distinctive features of Plautus' dramaturgy, how those features relate to their Roman environment, and how they have inspired subsequent dramatists"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (515 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781118958001 |
