Rome and the Mysterious Orient - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rome and the Mysterious Orient write by Titus Maccius Plautus. This book was released on 2005-12-12. Rome and the Mysterious Orient available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Rome and the Mysterious Orient
Rome and the Mysterious Orient - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rome and the Mysterious Orient write by Plautus. This book was released on 2005-12-12. Rome and the Mysterious Orient available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, 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.
Rome and the Mysterious Orient
Rome and the Mysterious Orient - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rome and the Mysterious Orient write by Plautus. This book was released on 2005-12-12. Rome and the Mysterious Orient available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, 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.
Slave Theater in the Roman Republic
Slave Theater in the Roman Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slave Theater in the Roman Republic write by Amy Richlin. This book was released on 2017-12-28. Slave Theater in the Roman Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared - natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty - and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape - all complicated by the actors' maleness. Comedy starts with anger.
Orient Or Rome?
Orient Or Rome? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orient Or Rome? write by W. Eugene Kleinbauer. This book was released on 1974. Orient Or Rome? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
