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Livres anciens et modernes

Mccarthy, Kathleen

SLAVES, MASTERS, AND THE ART OF AUTHORITY IN PLAUTINE COMEDY Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Princeton University Press, 2000

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Année
2000
Auteur
Mccarthy, Kathleen
Éditeurs
Princeton University Press
Thème
Plays & Drama Plautus Social & Cultural Latin Literature Theater, & Theatre Comedy Classical Greek & Roman
Description
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description
Hardcover ISBN 0691048886

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Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Very light bumping to corners. DJ has light creasing and shelf wear. ; 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. ; 240 pages