LEADER 04782nam 2201057Ia 450 001 9910783666803321 005 20230617003929.0 010 $a0-520-93822-4 010 $a1-282-76310-5 010 $a9786612763106 010 $a1-59875-933-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938229 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246854 035 $a(EBL)254865 035 $a(OCoLC)475969681 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000239462 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218785 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239462 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239352 035 $a(PQKB)10366580 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC254865 035 $a(DE-B1597)520168 035 $a(OCoLC)62861702 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938229 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL254865 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10106464 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276310 035 $a(OCoLC)935230523 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246854 100 $a20050121d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRome and the mysterious Orient$b[electronic resource] $ethree plays by Plautus /$ftranslated with introductions and notes by Amy Richlin 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-24274-2 311 0 $a0-520-24275-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tWEEVI L (CURCULIO) --$tIRAN MAN (PERSA) --$tTOWELHEADS (POENULUS) --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aStill 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, 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. 606 $aColonies$vDrama 606 $aEast and West$vDrama 606 $aImperialism$vDrama 607 $aRome$xForeign relations$vDrama 608 $aComedies.$2gsafd 610 $aamerican pop culture references. 610 $aamerican references. 610 $aancient comedy. 610 $aancient rome. 610 $aancient theater. 610 $aannotated. 610 $aanthology. 610 $acolonialism. 610 $acomedy plays. 610 $acontemporary audiences. 610 $acontextual introductions. 610 $aeast west conflict. 610 $aeastern culture. 610 $aenglish translations. 610 $ahistory of drama. 610 $aimperialism. 610 $amodern comedy. 610 $amodernized translation. 610 $aorientalism. 610 $aplautus. 610 $aplays. 610 $apopular culture. 610 $arole of comedy. 610 $aroman playwright. 610 $arome at war. 610 $arome. 610 $astreet lingo. 610 $awartime audiences. 610 $awestern culture. 615 0$aColonies 615 0$aEast and West 615 0$aImperialism 676 $a872/.01 700 $aPlautus$b Titus Maccius$0166580 701 $aRichlin$b Amy$f1951-$0299832 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783666803321 996 $aRome and the mysterious Orient$93783848 997 $aUNINA