دانلود کتاب Plautus: Mostellaria

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Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
Playbill
Summary and Highlights
Character Names and Meanings
Synopsis and Arcs
1 Why Plautus? Why Mostellaria?
Ghostly Greek Comic Ancestors
Ghastly Roman Renovations?
Translation, the Odyssey, and Versatile Plautus
2 Foundations and Frames
Venue and Date
Roman Slavery
The Traffic in Women
Expenses of Monstrous Scale
Rural Roman Conservatism and Urban Greek Liberality
Paratheatrical Performances and the Roman Forum
Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Superstition
3 Staging Mostellaria
The Roman Scaena
Masks, Characterization, and Actors
Costumes and Props
Embedded Stage Directions
Monologues, Asides, and Eavesdropping
Metatheater
Improvisation
Meter
Farce and Low Resolution
4 Afterlife and Ghost Lights
The Postmortem Scripts
Three Early Modern English Reincarnations
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Tranio Trickster
Appendix 1: Pliny’s “Haunted House” (Letter 7.27.5–11)
Appendix 2: A Doubling Chart
Appendix 3: Character Line Counts
Appendix 4: A Selective Chronology
Notes
Editions and English Translations
Works Cited
Index