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1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 563 pages)
ISBN:
9781316585467
Inhalt:
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 of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared - natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty - and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape - all complicated by the actors' maleness. Comedy starts with anger
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Machine generated contents note: 1. History and theory; Part I. What Was Given: 2. The body at the bottom; 3. Singing for your supper; Part II. What Was Desired: 4. Getting even; 5. Looking like a slave-woman; 6. Telling without saying; 7. Remembering the way back; 8. Escape; Conclusions: from stage to rebellion
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018)
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ISBN 9781107152311
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ISBN 9781316606438
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Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe Richlin, Amy, 1951 - Slave theater in the Roman Republic Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781107152311
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781316606438
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Altertumswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
Latein
;
Komödie
;
Sklave
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Plautus, Titus Maccius v254-v184
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10.1017/9781316585467
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