CLA 010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Plautus, Theatre Of Ancient Rome, Ancient Greek Comedy
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Used music and dance at funerals and festivals. Phersu: persona -> mask/character (projecting an image of oneself) Italian farces (atellanae): s. italy (colonized by greece) Characters: fools, hunchback, glutton, old man (typical characters) The cunning slave: rescue young man of the family. Usually during a second plan to help young man with no money to marry/court a woman who belonged to someone else or was a prostitute. Plautus romanized menander"s play; same plot, changed main character to a soldier. Original contribution of plautus: romantic situations and different themes. Arcoteleutium: woman that pretends to be periplectomenus"s wife, actually a prostitute. Twin (convince sceledrus that he saw the twin sister) Palaestrio convinces sceledrus of something he didn"t actually see. Developing of the main plot between palaestrio and. Periplectomenus (rich old man) pays woman to pretend to be his wife to trick pyrgopolynices. Trap pyrgopolynices by having the wife (probably a prostitute) fall in love with him.