Plautus: Cistellaria

Professor Ariana Traill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-24178-7 (ISBN)

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Plautus’ Cistellaria (“The Hope Chest”) is a story of young lovers defying poverty, illegitimacy and implacable parents in order to be together, featuring a memorable cast of characters thrown together in moments of both high humor and melodrama amid scenes of witty interchange and lively conflict of values and ideals. This volume is the first book-length introduction to the play, offering an incisive overview for both students and scholars coming to it for the first time.

Drawing on performance and cultural studies, gender and sexuality, and secondary world theory, Ariana Traill combines a lucid exploration of Cistellaria's places, people, plot and key themes with detailed analyses of its literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts. Readers are able to appreciate the play as a literary artefact, with its attendant issues of generic conventions and variations, language and imagery, and also to understand what the experience of watching it as a member of a Roman audience might have been like. With its majoritively female line-up (7 of the 12 roles are female), Cistellaria presents 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 historical study of women and gender in ancient Rome, and one which continues to cast a long shadow in the western dramatic tradition through its long history of reception and adaptation.

Ariana Traill is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.

1. Cistellaria: A Roman Comedy
(a) Overview
(b) When and Where was Cistellaria Performed?
(c) Who Went to See It?
(d) Who Performed It?
(e) Who Paid for It?
(f) What Did It Sound Like?
(g) What Did It Look Like?

2. Cistellaria 101
(a) The Place
(b) The People
(c) The Plots
(d) The Themes

3. Performing Cistellaria
(a) Exposition (1-119)
(b) The Prologues (120-202)
(c) A Song of Love (203-230
(d) Almost Improv (231-250)
(e) Love is War (251-304)
(d) Duping Dad (305-373a)
(e) Fragments of Abuse (374-448)
(f) A Losing Debate (449-535)
(g) Snooping on Recognition (536-596)
(h) Interrogation (597-630)
(i) A Restoration Plot (631-638)
(j) Abduction (639-652)
(k) The Cista Plays Its Part (653-670)
(l) A Song of Loss (671-694)
(m) Full Disclosure (695-773)
(n) Exodus (774-787)

4. Reading Cistellaria
(a) From Popular Entertainment to World Literature
(b) Ringing the Changes on Stock Types
(c) Plautine Plotting
(d) Dramatic Ironies
(e) The Meaning(s) of the Cista
(f) The Language of Plautus

5. The Primary World(s) of Cistellaria
(a) Time and Place
(b) Classes and Conflicts
(c) Enslavement at Rome
(d) Gender
(e) Social Behavior
(f) Religion and Morals
(g) The Law
(h) Marriage and Prostitution
(i) Commerce
(j) War and Peace

6. The Afterlife
(a) How Did this Play Survive?
(b) What Was Its Influence?

Works Cited
Further Reading
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.8.2025
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
Zusatzinfo	4 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-24178-4 / 1350241784
ISBN-13	978-1-350-24178-7 / 9781350241787
Zustand	Neuware