Plautus: Mostellaria by Professor George Fredric Franko Hardcover Book

Description: Plautus: Mostellaria by Professor George Fredric Franko, George Fredric Franko Plautus Mostellaria is one of ancient Romes 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 prostitutes freedom. Tranio convinces the gullible father that his house is haunted, that his son has purchased the neighbors house, and that he must repay a moneylender. Plautus animates this skeletal plot with farcical scenes of Tranios slapstick abuse of a rustic slave, the young lovers 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 Mostellarias 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 Mostellarias reception considers modernitys continuing fascination with Plautine farce and trickery. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography George Fredric Franko is Professor of Classical Studies at Hollins University, USA. Table of Contents PrefacePlaybillSummary and HighlightsCharacter Names and MeaningsSynopsis and Arcs1 Why Plautus? Why Mostellaria?Ghostly Greek Comic AncestorsGhastly Roman Renovations?Translation, the Odyssey, and Versatile Plautus2 Foundations and framesVenue and DateRoman SlaveryThe Traffic in WomenExpenses of Monstrous ScaleRural Roman Conservatism and Urban Greek LiberalityParatheatrical Performances and the Roman ForumGhosts, Haunted Houses, and Superstition3 Staging MostellariaThe Roman ScaenaMasks, Characterization, and ActorsCostumes and PropsEmbedded Stage DirectionsMonologues, Asides, and EavesdroppingMetatheaterImprovisationMeterFarce and Low Resolution4 Afterlife and ghost lightsThe postmortem ScriptsThree Early Modern English ReincarnationsA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumTranio TricksterAppendix 1: Plinys "Haunted House"Appendix 2: A Doubling ChartAppendix 3: Character Line CountsAppendix 4: A Selective ChronologyNotesEditions and English TranslationsBibliographyIndex Review Frankos Mostellaria offers students and scholars valuable summaries of some of the biggest issues, both social and theatrical, running throughout the Plautine corpus and provides performers with numerous approaches specific to the play. * The Classical Review *This study would certainly be a very valuable resource for anyone studying the play in Latin or in translation. * The Journal of Classics Teaching * Promotional An accessible introduction to Plautus farcical Mostellaria that examines the play in its guises of both a Roman cultural document and a performed comedy. Promotional "Headline" An accessible introduction to Plautus farcical Mostellaria that examines the play in its guises of both a Roman cultural document and a performed comedy. Feature Introduces students to one of Plautus best comedies Details ISBN1350188417 Year 2022 ISBN-10 1350188417 ISBN-13 9781350188419 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-01-13 UK Release Date 2022-01-13 Pages 176 Series Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-01-13 Author George Fredric Franko Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 872.01 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-01-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134189691;

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