Slave theater in the Roman Republic : Plautus and popular comedy /

"Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richlin, Amy, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Theater > Rome > History.
Latin drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Actors > Rome.
Theater and society > Rome > History.
Slavery > Rome > Social conditions.
Civilization, Classical.
Théâtre > Rome > Histoire.
Comédie latine > Histoire et critique.
Acteurs > Rome.
Théâtre et société > Rome > Histoire.
Civilisation ancienne.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Actors.
Latin drama (Comedy)
Slavery > Social conditions.
Theater.
Theater and society.
Rome (Empire)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to Readers
  • Chapter 1 History and Theory
  • Prologue
  • Models of the Palliata
  • History of Slavery
  • History of the 200s bce: War, Poverty, Class Conflict
  • Free Speech
  • Humor Theory
  • Performance Theory
  • Plautus and Theories of Popular Culture
  • The Politics of Reading Plautus
  • Ancient Slavery and Current Ideology
  • Part I What was Given
  • Chapter 2 The Body at the Bottom
  • Names
  • Addressing the Body of the Audience
  • Beating
  • Sex
  • Hunger
  • The Comedian's Body
  • Chapter 3 Singing for Your Supper
  • Cheerleading
  • Verbal Dueling
  • Flagitatio, Occentatio, Quiritatio
  • Debt and Shame, Fides and Credit
  • Actors and Audience in the Wartime Economy
  • Part II What Was Desired
  • Chapter 4 Getting Even
  • Putting the Owner Down
  • Raising Up the Slave
  • Claiming Good Things
  • The Dream of a Free Place
  • Chapter 5 Looking like a Slave-Woman
  • Object into Subject
  • Slave-Woman Drag
  • Abusing the Era
  • "I will still be some mother's daughter"
  • When the Fat Lady Sings
  • Chapter 6 Telling Without Saying
  • Double Meaning
  • Face-Out Lines
  • Normative Statements and Exploding Cigars
  • Turning Object into Subject
  • Grumbling
  • Editorials
  • "Good Slave" Speeches
  • Telling Without Saying
  • Chapter 7 Remembering the Way Back
  • Human Trafficking and the Road Home
  • Traffic
  • Road Maps
  • Family Reunion and the Memory of Freedom
  • Remember Your Orders
  • Remember Where You Came from
  • The Way Back and the Way Out
  • Chapter 8 Escape
  • Manumission
  • Kings
  • Birds and Cages
  • Getting Off the Grid
  • The Isles of the Blest and the Isles of the Damned
  • Conquest
  • Heaven
  • Over Jordan
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Timeline: War and Comedy in the 200s bce.
  • Appendix 2 Brief Plot Summaries Of The Extant Plays Attributed To Plautus ...
  • Extant Plays Attributed to Plautus
  • Titles of Early Roman Comedies for Which Fragments are Extant
  • Titles of Comedies by Livius Andronicus forWhich Fragments Remain (3)
  • Titles of Comedies by Naevius for Which Fragments Remain (33)
  • Titles of Comedies by Plautus for Which Fragments Remain (32)
  • Titles of Comedies by Ennius for Which Fragments Remain (2)
  • Titles of Comedies by Caecilius Statius for Which Fragments Remain (42)
  • Bibliography
  • Abbreviations
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Verborum.

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