Plautus: Cistellaria

AvAriana Traill,C. W. Marshall

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This volume is the first book-length introduction to Plautus’ Cistellaria (The Jewelry Box), offering an incisive overview for both students and scholars coming to it for the first time. This play is a story of young lovers defying social norms and disapproving parents in order to be together, featuring a memorable cast of characters and moments of both high humor and drama. This classic mistaken-identity plot includes witty interchanges and a lively conflict of values and ideals.Drawing on performance and cultural studies, gender and sexuality, and philology and intertextuality, Ariana Traill combines a lucid exploration of Cistellaria's setting, characters, plot and themes, with detailed analyses of its literary and socio-cultural contexts. Readers are able to appreciate the play both as a literary artifact, with its attendant issues of generic conventions and variations, and language and imagery, and as a performance script written for a rich tradition of acting, singing and stage movement at Rome, with its conventional costumes, masks and venues. With its majority female line-up (seven of the twelve roles are female), Cistellaria offers an unusual focus on women’s thoughts and feelings as they struggle for their economic and social existence, making it a fascinating source for the study of women and gender in ancient Rome. The play continues to cast a shadow in the western dramatic tradition through its history of reception and adaptation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-02
Mått:138 x 218 x 16 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350241787

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Ariana Traill is Professor in the Department of the Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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Traill successfully pulls together a lot of Plautine scholarship as it relates to a fuller understanding of the Cistellaria, making this a useful companion to the play. Her many end notes lead to the most relevant scholarship and to fascinating websites (that will hopefully remain active). The book is informative and well written.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Cistellaria: A Roman Comedy2. The People of Cistellaria3. Performance and Genre4. The Afterlife of CistellariaAppendix 1: State of PreservationAppendix 2: MetricsWorks CitedFurther ReadingIndex

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