Slave theater in the Roman republic Plautus and popular comedy First Edition by Amy Richlin ISBN 1316606430‎ 978-1316606438

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ISBN 10: 1316606430‎ 

ISBN 13: 978-1316606438

Author: Amy Richlin

Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared – natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty – and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape – all complicated by the actors’ maleness. Comedy starts with anger.

Table of contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note to Readers

Chapter 1 – History and Theory

Part I – What Was Given

Chapter 2 – The Body at the Bottom

Chapter 3 – Singing for Your Supper

Part II – What Was Desired

Chapter 4 – Getting Even

Chapter 5 – Looking like a Slave-Woman

Chapter 6 – Telling Without Saying

Chapter 7 – Remembering the Way Back

Chapter 8 – Escape

Conclusion

Appendices

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