Performative Plautus : Sophistics, metatheater and translation / Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonçalves, Rodrigo Tadeu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Latin drama (Comedy).

Plautus, Titus Maccius--Language.

Plautus, Titus Maccius.

Plautus, Titus Maccius--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance. The book offers an insightful understanding of Plautus' texts as more than simple literary remains of "archaic" Latin literature, but as witnesses of a process of using language to perform an entire world through the recognition of the power of language itself as a creative and constitutive agent of theatrical codification and variation of its own rules and conventions. The analyses of several of Plautus' plays are

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

1.1. Non-Aristotelianism according to Barbara Cassin

1.2. Non-Aristotelianism according to Florence Dupont

Chapter Two

2.1. Livius Andronicus

2.2. From Naevius to Ennius

2.3. Roman Palliata

2.4. Plautus

2.5. Terence

Chapter Three

3.1. The prologue

3.2. The plot thickens

3.3. The plot restarts: The gods' prologues

3.4. Dénouement

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8441-3

OCLC:

925303557