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Autore |
Plautus Titus Maccius |
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Titolo |
Rome and the mysterious Orient [[electronic resource] ] : three plays by Plautus / / translated with introductions and notes by Amy Richlin |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
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0-520-93822-4 |
1-282-76310-5 |
9786612763106 |
1-59875-933-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Colonies |
East and West |
Imperialism |
Electronic books. |
Rome Foreign relations Drama |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- WEEVI L (CURCULIO) -- IRAN MAN (PERSA) -- TOWELHEADS (POENULUS) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays-originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and veterans, exiles, immigrants, people newly enslaved in the wars, and citizens-tap into the mix of fear, loathing, and curiosity with which cultures, particularly Western and Eastern cultures, often view each other, always a productive source of comedy. These current, accessible, and accurate translations have replaced terms meaningful only to their original audience, such as references to Roman gods, with a hilarious, inspired sampling of American popular culture-from songs to movie stars to slang. Matching the original Latin line for line, this volume captures the full exuberance of Plautus's street language, |
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bursting with puns, learned allusions, ethnic slurs, dirty jokes, and profanities, as it brings three rarely translated works-Weevil (Curculio), Iran Man (Persa), and Towelheads (Poenulus)-to a wide contemporary audience. Richlin's erudite introduction sets these plays within the context of the long history of East-West conflict and illuminates the role played by comedy and performance in imperialism and colonialism. She has also provided detailed and wide-ranging contextual introductions to the individual plays, as well as extensive notes, which, together with these superb and provocative translations, will bring Plautus alive for a new generation of readers and actors. |
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