Plautus: Cistellaria

di Ariana Traill (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2025

This volume is the first book-length introduction to Plautus’ Cistellaria (The Jewelry Box), offering an incisive overview for both students and scholars coming to it for the first time. This play is a story of young lovers defying social norms and disapproving parents in order to be together, featuring a memorable cast of characters and moments of both high humor and drama. This classic mistaken-identity plot includes witty interchanges and a lively conflict of values and ideals. Drawing on performance and cultural studies, gender and sexuality, and philology and intertextuality, Ariana Traill combines a lucid exploration of Cistellaria's setting, characters, plot and themes, with detailed analyses of its literary and socio-cultural contexts. Readers are able to appreciate the play both as a literary artifact, with its attendant issues of generic conventions and variations, and language and imagery, and as a performance script written for a rich tradition of acting, singing and stage movement at Rome, with its conventional costumes, masks and venues. With its majority female line-up (seven of the twelve roles are female), Cistellaria offers an unusual focus on women’s thoughts and feelings as they struggle for their economic and social existence, making it a fascinating source for the study of women and gender in ancient Rome. The play continues to cast a shadow in the western dramatic tradition through its history of reception and adaptation.

• Autore: Ariana Traill
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Collana: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 218 x 138 mm
• Peso: 340 gr.
• EAN: 9781350241787

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