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1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Originally published: 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Abbreviations and Conventions; CHAPTER I: The Crowded House; CHAPTER II: The Ties That Bind: Menaechmi; CHAPTER III: Love's Labour's Lost: Casina; CHAPTER IV: A Kind of Wild Justice: Persa; CHAPTER V: Truth Is the Best Disguise: Captivi; CONCLUSION: The Slave's Image in the Master's Mind; Works Cited; Index of Plautine Passages; General Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Plautus, Titus Maccius. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Plautus, Titus Maccius. |
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Master and servant in literature.
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Master and servant in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Rome.
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Authority in literature.
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Authority in literature. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Comedy.
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Comedy. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McCarthy, Kathleen, 1962- Slaves, masters, and the art of authority in Plautine comedy. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ; Chichester : UPCCP, 2004 9780691117850 (OCoLC)53871582 |
| ISBN |
9781400824700 (electronic book) |
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1400824702 (electronic book) |
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