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Le Rudens ou Le Cordage — l’une des vingt et une comédies conservées sur les cent trente qui furent attribuées à Plaute — occupe une place à part dans le corpus plautinien comme dans le théâtre latin. Outre les problèmes posés par les rapports de Plaute à sa source grecque, cette palliata, composée au tournant du IIe siècle avant notre ère, réserve en effet bien des surprises, de son titre énigmatique à son dénouement amoral en passant par son intrigue romanesque, son prologue édifiant, sa composition paratactique, son décor maritime, son chœur de pêcheurs misérables, sa tonalité paratragique, ses héroïnes au noble cœur et leur émouvant lamento. C’est de cette partition théâtrale, atypique par bien des aspects, que les contributions réunies dans le présent volume proposent de renouveler l’interprétation. Respectivement centrées sur des questions structurelles, génériques, métriques, caractérologiques et thématiques, ces études permettent de dégager les enjeux idéologiques, poétiques et dramaturgiques de la pièce. Plus largement, elles apportent un nouvel éclairage sur l’étrange spécificité de la comédie latine et sur une période mal connue de l’histoire du théâtre.

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The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205-184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant.

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"This reference resource will offer a comprehensive survey of the plays of Rome's most popular dramatist. The surviving scripts of Titus Maccius Plautus (along with those of his successor Terence) provide the primary source of the Western Comic theatrical tradition for the Middle Ages, Renaissance, modern era, and today's newer media of movies and television sitcoms. The Companion will explore the distinctive features of Plautus' dramaturgy, how those features relate to their Roman environment, and how they have inspired subsequent dramatists"--

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What pleasures did Plautus' heroic tricksters provide their original audience? How should we understand the compelling mix of rebellion and social conservatism that Plautus offers? Through a close reading of four plays representing the full range of his work (Menaechmi, Casina, Persa, and Captivi), Kathleen McCarthy develops an innovative model of Plautine comedy and its social effects. She concentrates on how the plays are shaped by the interaction of two comic modes: the socially conservative mode of naturalism and the potentially subversive mode of farce. It is precisely this balance of the naturalistic and the farcical that allows everyone in the audience--especially those well placed in the social hierarchy--to identify both with and against the rebel, to feel both the thrill of being a clever underdog and the complacency of being a securely ensconced authority figure. Basing her interpretation on the workings of farce and naturalism in Plautine comedy, McCarthy finds a way to understand the plays' patchwork literary style as well as their protean social effects. Beyond this, she raises important questions about popular literature and performance not only on ancient Roman stages but in cultures far from Plautus' Rome. How and why do people identify with the fictional figures of social subordinates? How do stock characters, happy endings, and other conventions operate? How does comedy simultaneously upset and uphold social hierarchies? Scholars interested in Plautine theater will be rewarded by the detailed analyses of the plays, while those more broadly interested in social and cultural history will find much that is useful in McCarthy's new way of grasping the elusive ideological effects of comedy.

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