CMRS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Plautus, Winter Solstice, Middle Ages
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Look at thesis paragraphs from the ugly truth. Follows the same approach as the swaggering soldier. Don"t need the details because it is a comic stand-up act essentially. ^^ he embodied the genius of the family the heart and soul of the family. The whole point of this is to create this comic world plautus. 1/6 way down 227 meter shifts no longer singing. Bottom 232 i promise ill get you the money. The whole focus is will the clever slave get the money out of the father and the pimp. Topsy turvy world- the clever slave should be like those in menander but he ends up being the center of the comedy. Mos maiorum ways of our ancesters- the way we should conduct ourselves, setting themselves up for failer. Bakhtin- russian guy studied the middle ages talked about the world of carnavalesque saturnalia. World where everything is turned on its head marti gras.