Автор: Seth A. Jeppesen Название: Plautus: Trinummus ISBN: 1350126764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350126763 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this first introduction to Plautus’ Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes, context, and enduring humor of this Roman comedy. The play portrays the story of an elaborate game of keep-away involving a hidden treasure, a hot-blooded spendthrift youth, his pious sister, her would-be fiancee, a con-artist, and the most unlikely of comic schemers-a group of overly pious old men. The conflict of the plot focuses on whether a pair of old men can help their absent friend Charmides by getting a dowry to his daughter without Charmides’ wastrel son Lesbonicus first spending the money on the usual comic debauchery. The money is taken from a treasure hidden by Charmides when he left and a sycophant is hired to pretend to bring letters from Charmides along with the cash for the dowry. Comic confusion ensues when Charmides returns from abroad just in time to intercept the con-artist and overturn the scheming of his friends. Long neglected, Trinummus is one of many Plautine plays that is experiencing a resurgence. This volume elucidates the humor of the play, which is largely based on parody and clever inversions of typical characters and situations from Roman comedy. This discussion is accompanied by an examination of the religious, social, and historical context of the play, as well as its modern reception. The genuine humor of Trinummus has something to say to modern readers, as it showcases how parody can skewer those engaged in pompous moral posturing and presents readers with a playwright who astutely views issues of imperialism and moral justification through a comic lens.
Автор: Franko George Fredric, Marshall C. W., Slater Niall W. Название: Plautus: Mostellaria ISBN: 1350188417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350188419 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 22990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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.
Автор: Hardin Richard F. Название: Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy ISBN: 1683931300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683931300 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11723.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus`s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and sets Plautus`s reception apart from that of the quite different dramatist Terence. The latter half takes up the Plautine traits that appear in the practice of English comic dramatists ca. 1500-1640.
Автор: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad Название: Plautus: Curculio ISBN: 1350214337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350214330 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculapius, an unusual setting for an ancient comedy. But a mid-play monologue by the stage manager shows us where the action really is: in the real-life Roman Forum, in the lives and low-lifes of the audience.
This study explores the world of Curculio and the world of Plautus, with special attention to how the play was originally performed (including the first-ever comprehensive musical analysis of the play), the play’s plots and themes, and its connections to ancient Roman cultural practices of love, sex, religion, food, and class. Plautus: Curculio also offers the first performance and reception history of the play: how it has survived through more than two millennia and its appearances in the modern world.
Автор: Emilia A. Barbiero Название: Letters in Plautus: Writing Between the Lines ISBN: 1009168517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009168519 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Illuminates the origins of the earliest surviving poetry written in Latin and addresses a question that has vexed readers of Plautine comedy since the birth of modern philology: how did Plautus translate? Of interest to scholars of Latin poetry, the Roman Republic, book history and the history of western drama.
Автор: Plautus Название: Selections from Plautus ISBN: 1107620058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107620056 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1924, and intended for pre-university students, this book contains the Latin text of extracts from the works of the Roman comic Plautus. The selections are prefaced with an introduction on the playwright`s life, and are accompanied by notes on the text and an appendix on the poetic metres used.
Автор: David Christenson Название: Plautus: Casina ISBN: 1350020540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350020542 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 11088.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This is the first volume dedicated to Plautus' perennially popular comedy Casina that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin. It launches a much-needed new series of books, each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Four chapters highlight the play's historical context, themes, performance and reception, including its reflection of recent societal trends in marriage and property ownership by women after the Punic Wars, and its complex dynamics on stage. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a brief introduction to the play.
Casina pits a husband (Lysidamus) and wife (Cleostrata) against each other in a struggle for control of a 16-year-old slave named Casina. Cleostrata cleverly plots to frustrate the efforts of her lascivious elderly husband, staging a cross-dressing 'marriage' that culminates in his complete humiliation. The play provides rich insights into relationships within the Roman family. This volume analyses how Casina addresses such issues as women's status and property rights, the distribution of power within a Roman household, and sexual violence, all within a compellingly meta-comic framework from which Cleostrata emerges as a surprising comic hero. It also examines the play's enduring popularity and relevance.
Автор: David Christenson Название: Plautus: Pseudolus ISBN: 0521149711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521149716 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edition is designed to facilitate reading of Pseudolus, one of Plautus` most innovative and delightful plays and a lens into Roman slave society. It assumes no specialised knowledge of early Latin, Plautus` social-historical milieu, or ancient comedy and provides students with all the help needed to understand the Latin.
Автор: Plautus Название: Menaechmi ISBN: 1107487307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107487307 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3483.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1919 as part of the Pitt Press series, this book contains an edited edition of the Latin text of Plautus` comedy Menaechmi. Knight provides an introduction on the origin and legacy of the play, as well as remarks on Plautus` style and use of metre.
Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master's illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master's son, but a comedy of mistaken identities and competing interests ensues. Amid the mayhem, Epidicus aims to win his freedom whilst risking some of the grislier punishments the Romans inflicted on their unfortunate slaves.
This parallel edition in both Latin and English, with its accessible introduction and comprehensive notes, guides the reader through this popular Roman play. Tracy explores Epidicus's roots in Greek drama, its rich social resonances for a Roman audience and its life in performance. She transforms Plautus' colloquial Latin poetry into lively modern English prose, illuminating the play's many comedic references to the world of the Roman republic.
This fine introduction to an enduring play will be of great use and enjoyment for undergraduate students of Latin drama and the general reader alike.
Автор: Hardin Richard F Название: Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy ISBN: 1683931289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683931287 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25519.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus`s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and sets Plautus`s reception apart from that of the quite different dramatist Terence. The latter half takes up the Plautine traits that appear in the practice of English comic dramatists ca. 1500-1640.
Описание: As war ravaged Italy in the 200s BCE, slave actors spoke truth to power. Based on the plays of Plautus, this book brings the voices of Roman slaves to the history of theater and illuminates a major body of evidence for the history of slavery. An inspiring story of resistance.
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