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Plautus: Pseudolus (Hardcover)
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Plautus: Pseudolus (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's
metapoetics. As its eponymous clever slave telegraphs his every
move to spectators, Pseudolus highlights the aesthetic, social, and
performative priorities of Plautine comedy: brilliant linguistic
play, creative appropriation of comic tradition, interrogation of
convention and social norms, the projection of an air of
improvisation and a fresh comic universe, and exploration of
dramatic mimesis itself. The extensive Introduction analyses
Plautus' delightful comedy as a stage-performance, the comic
playwright's translation and adaptation practices, his innovative
deployment of language and metrical and musical virtuosity, as well
as the play's transmission and reception. In addition to detailed
elucidation of the Latin text, the Commentary examines Pseudolus as
a lens into Roman slave society at the time of its debut at the
Megalensian festival of 191 BCE. The edition engages throughout
with current criticism and issues of interest to both students and
scholars.
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