Letters in Plautus - Couverture souple

Barbiero, Emilia A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009168525 ISBN 13 : 9781009168526

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The letters in Plautus are potent tools for making and thinking about Plautine comedy inside Plautine comedy. Emilia Barbiero demonstrates that Plautus' embedded letters reify the internal performance and evince its theatricality by means of the epistolary medium's script-like ability to precipitate presence in absence. These missives thus serve as emblems of the dramatic script, and in their onstage composition and recitation they cast a portrait of the plays' textual origins into the plays themselves. But by virtue of their inscription with a premise which is identical to that of the comedies they inhabit, the Plautine letters also reproduce the relationship between the playwright's Greek models and his Latin translations: the mirror effect created by a dramatic text inscribed, read and realized within a dramatic text whose plot it also duplicates generates a mise-en-abyme which ultimately serves to contemplate problems of novelty and literary ownership that beset Plautus' literary endeavor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emilia A. Barbiero is an Assistant Professor of Classics at New York University. She has published extensively on Plautus and on ancient letters both Greek and Latin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009168525
• ISBN 13: 9781009168526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
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