{"product_id":"9781350416222-plautus-epidicus","title":"Plautus: Epidicus","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book unpacks the complicated, recursive plots of Plautus’ second shortest work, including the first complete study of its afterlife from Plautus to today. \u003c\/b\u003ePlautus’ comedy \u003ci\u003eEpidicus\u003c\/i\u003e has the most convoluted plot in all known ancient Greek and Roman literature – despite being shorter than all but two other plays that survive in full from ancient drama. The play is filled with doubles and triples: two soldiers, three lyre-players, two love objects, two old men, two young men, three deception plots, and three pairs of scenes where one person momentously recognizes – or momentously \u003ci\u003edoesn’t\u003c\/i\u003e recognize – someone else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book untwists the knots of plot, character, humour and culture that Plautus’ \u003ci\u003eEpidicus\u003c\/i\u003e has tied into tangles. In four trenchant, comprehensive, yet reader-friendly chapters, this companion explores \u003ci\u003eEpidicus\u003c\/i\u003e as a case study in ancient Roman playwrighting; a source for insights about ancient Roman society; and a fruitful challenge for readers, actors, spectators and directors alike. Whereas many previous interpretations of the play have obsessed to distraction over questions about Greek models, compression, deletion, maladaptation, or careless composition by Plautus, this book instead uses a focus on performance, lifecycles and story-cycles, and social issues to make \u003ci\u003eEpidicus\u003c\/i\u003e make sense in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55391631901046,"sku":"9781350416222","price":65.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350416222-plautus-epidicus","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}