Plautus: "Mostellaria":
"Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome's most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune on parties with his fr...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome's most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple: when a father returns home after three years abroad, a clever slave named Tranio devises deceptions to conceal that the son has squandered a fortune on parties with his friends and purchasing his beloved courtesan. Tranio convinces the gullible father that his house is haunted, that his son has purchased the neighbor's house, and that he must repay a moneylender. Plautus animates this skeletal plot with farcical scenes of Tranio's slapstick abuse of a rustic slave, the young lover's maudlin song lamenting his debauchery, a women's grooming scene (played by male actors), a drunken party, a flustered moneylender, spirited slaves rebuffing the father, and Tranio simultaneously hoodwinking father and neighbor. This is the first book to offer an in-depth study of Mostellaria in its literary and historical contexts, and aims to help readers appraise the script as both cultural document and performed comedy. As a cultural document, the play a range of Roman preoccupations - from male ideologies of the acquisition, use and abuse of property, relations between owners and enslaved persons, and the traffic in women, to tensions between city and country, the appropriation and adaptation of Greek culture, and the specters of ancestry and surveillance - while as a performed comedy, it celebrates the power of creativity, improvisation and metatheater. In Mostellaria's farce, sleek simplicity replaces complexity as Plautus aggrandizes his comic hero by stripping plot to the minimum and leaving Tranio to operate alone with no resources other than his quick wit. The enduring appeal of the genre is explored in a chapter on Mostellaria's reception, which reveals modernity's continuing fascination with farce and shifting engagement with Roman culture"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 159 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781350188419 |
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| adam_text | Contents Preface Playbill Summary and Highlights Character Names and Meanings Synopsis and Arcs vii ix ix xiii xiv 1 Why Plautus? Why Mostellaria? Ghostly Greek Comic Ancestors Ghastly Roman Renovations? Translation, the Odyssey, and Versatile Plautus 1 3 6 11 2 Foundations and Frames Venue and Date Roman Slavery The Traffic in Women Expenses of Monstrous Scale Rural Roman Conservatism and Urban Greek Liberality Paratheatrical Performances and the Roman Forum Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Superstition 17 17 19 27 32 37 39 47 3 Staging Mostellaria The Roman Scaena Masks, Characterization, and Actors Costumes and Props Embedded Stage Directions Monologues, Asides, and Eavesdropping 53 53 59 64 66 70 Metatheater Improvisation Meter Farce and Low Resolution 76 80 83 90
vi 4 Contents Afterlife and Ghost Lights The Postmortem Scripts Three Early Modern English Reincarnations A Funny Thing Happened on the Why to the Forum Tranio Trickster Appendix 1 : Pliny’s “Haunted House” Appendix 2: A Doubling Chart Appendix 3: Character Line Counts Appendix 4: A Selective Chronology Notes Editions and English Translations Works Cited Index 93 93 97 106 111 115 117 119 121 123 141 143 155
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Contents Preface Playbill Summary and Highlights Character Names and Meanings Synopsis and Arcs vii ix ix xiii xiv 1 Why Plautus? Why Mostellaria? Ghostly Greek Comic Ancestors Ghastly Roman Renovations? Translation, the Odyssey, and Versatile Plautus 1 3 6 11 2 Foundations and Frames Venue and Date Roman Slavery The Traffic in Women Expenses of Monstrous Scale Rural Roman Conservatism and Urban Greek Liberality Paratheatrical Performances and the Roman Forum Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Superstition 17 17 19 27 32 37 39 47 3 Staging Mostellaria The Roman Scaena Masks, Characterization, and Actors Costumes and Props Embedded Stage Directions Monologues, Asides, and Eavesdropping 53 53 59 64 66 70 Metatheater Improvisation Meter Farce and Low Resolution 76 80 83 90
vi 4 Contents Afterlife and Ghost Lights The Postmortem Scripts Three Early Modern English Reincarnations A Funny Thing Happened on the Why to the Forum Tranio Trickster Appendix 1 : Pliny’s “Haunted House” Appendix 2: A Doubling Chart Appendix 3: Character Line Counts Appendix 4: A Selective Chronology Notes Editions and English Translations Works Cited Index 93 93 97 106 111 115 117 119 121 123 141 143 155 |
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