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Plautus Mostellaria
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Author : George Fredric Franko
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-13
Plautus Mostellaria written by George Fredric Franko and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 partying with pals and purchasing his prized prostitute's freedom. 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 prodigality, a cross-gender dressing routine, a drunken party, a flustered moneylender, spirited slaves rebuffing the father, and Tranio hoodwinking father and neighbor simultaneously. This is the first book-length study of Mostellaria in its literary and historical contexts. It aims to help readers and theater practitioners appreciate the script as both cultural document and performed comedy. As a cultural document, the play portrays a range of Roman preoccupations, including male ideologies of the acquisition, use and abuse of property, relations between owners and enslaved persons, the traffic in women, tensions between city and country, the appropriation and adaptation of Greek culture, and the specters of ancestry and surveillance. As a performed comedy, the play 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. A chapter on Mostellaria's reception considers modernity's continuing fascination with Plautine farce and trickery.
Mostellaria
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : la
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Mostellaria written by Titus Maccius Plautus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.
The Mostellaria Of Plautus
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
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Plautus Mostellaria Or The Haunted House
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Author : Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-10
Plautus Mostellaria Or The Haunted House written by Plautus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-10 with categories.
Titus Maccius Plautus is better known in English as Plautus, a prolific Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. As can be expected little is known of his early life. Accounts are reconciled that he was born in Sarsina, a small town in Emilia Romagna in northern Italy, around 254 BC. He first worked in the theatre as a stage-carpenter or scene-shifter. It would take quite some time for his acting talent to develop and then to be recognised. Redolent of the characters he originally portrayed he adopted the names 'Maccius' (a sort of clownish stock-character popular in farces) and 'Plautus' (to mean "flat-footed" or "flat-eared", like a hounds' ears). In acting he appears to have met with some success and from it a regular income. An account now suggests that he then returns to manual labor and to have used his spare time to study Greek drama, especially the New Comedy of Menander. Whatever the impulse it is clear that he would, between c. 205 BC and the time of his death in 184 BC write a large and significant canon of plays. Indeed, his name became a byword of theatrical success. His comedies are, in the main, sourced from standard Greek models and this includes his reworking and adapting the plays of the earlier Greek playwrights for a Roman audience, adding local nuance and cultural aspects to ensure both their acceptability and understandability. These works are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. Unfortunately, of the 130 plays which are attributed to him a mere 20 survive intact and a further 30 only in part or fragmented form. The historical context within which Plautus wrote can be seen, to some extent, in his comments on contemporary events and persons. In Plautus's lifetime Rome was becoming increasingly powerful, gathering influence and flexing its undoubted muscle to its greater good. The 17 year Second Punic War (218 BC - 201 BC) where for many years Italy itself was rampaged by Hannibal and his armies before his own final, crushing defeat back in Africa were seismic events in the Ancient world, with hundreds of thousands killed and entire regions of Europe overrun and devastated. Against this horrific backdrop Roman theater was at the early stage of development and still dependent on the earlier Greek classics for a supply line of stories and characters. Expanding empires tend to appropriate from other cultures and call it their own. Plautus was a popular comedic playwright, who along with his near-contemporary, Terence, was able to integrate these earlier works into the demands of a vast new cultural, economic and military power that was growing at an incredible rate. Plautus died in Rome in 184 BC.
The Mostellaria Of Plautus
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
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The Mostellaria
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
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The Mostellaria Of Plautus
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
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The Mostellaria Of Plautus With Notes Critical And Explanatory Prolegomena And Excursus By W Ramsay Edited By G G Ramsay
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Mostellaria Of Plautus With Notes Critical And Explanatory Prolegomena And Excursus By W Ramsay Edited By G G Ramsay written by Titus Maccius Plautus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.
The Mostellaria Of Plautus Scholar S Choice Edition
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-20
The Mostellaria Of Plautus Scholar S Choice Edition written by Titus Maccius Plautus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-20 with categories.
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T Macci Plauti Mostellaria
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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
T Macci Plauti Mostellaria written by Titus Maccius Plautus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.