Name: Rome and the Mysterious Orient (en Inglés)
SKU: 3355283
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Author: Amy Richlin
ISBN: 9780520242753

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Rome and the Mysterious Orient (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Amy Richlin

Año

2005

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

274

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0520242750

ISBN13

9780520242753

N° edición

Categorías

Obras clásicas y anteriores al siglo xx

Rome and the Mysterious Orient (en Inglés)

Amy Richlin (Autor) · University Of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays - originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and veterans, exiles, immigrants, people newly enslaved in the wars, and citizens - tap into the mix of fear, loathing, and curiosity with which cultures, particularly Western and Eastern cultures, often view each other, always a productive source of comedy. These current, accessible, and accurate translations have replaced terms meaningful only to their original audience, such as references to Roman gods, with a hilarious, inspired sampling of American popular culture - from songs to movie stars to slang. Matching the original Latin line for line, this volume captures the full exuberance of Plautus's street language, bursting with puns, learned allusions, ethnic slurs, dirty jokes, and profanities, as it brings three rarely translated works - "Weevil (Curculio)", "Iran Man (Persa)", and "Towelheads (Poenulus)" - to a wide contemporary audience. Richlin's erudite introduction sets these plays within the context of the long history of East-West conflict and illuminates the role played by comedy and performance in imperialism and colonialism. She has also provided detailed and wide-ranging contextual introductions to the individual plays, as well as extensive notes, which, together with these superb and provocative translations, will bring Plautus alive for a new generation of readers and actors.