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Slave Theater in the Roman Republic - Plautus and Popular Comedy (Hardcover)
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Slave Theater in the Roman Republic - Plautus and Popular Comedy (Hardcover)
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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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