TY - BOOK ID - 3111158 TI - Rome and the mysterious Orient : three plays by Plautus AU - Plautus, Titus Maccius AU - Richlin, A. AU - University of California Press PY - 2005 SN - 0520242742 0520242750 9786612763106 1282763105 0520938224 1598759337 9780520938229 1423745469 9781423745464 9781598759334 9780520242746 9780520242753 9781282763104 6612763108 PB - Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Colonies KW - Imperialism KW - Plautus, Titus Maccius KW - East and West KW - Rome KW - Foreign relations KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Civilization, Western KW - Civilization, Oriental KW - Occident and Orient KW - Orient and Occident KW - West and East KW - Eastern question KW - Anti-colonialism KW - Colonial affairs KW - Non-self-governing territories KW - Colonization KW - Asian influences KW - Oriental influences KW - Western influences KW - Plauto, Tito Maccio KW - Plavt, Tit Makt︠s︡iĭ KW - Plautus, M. Accius KW - Plautus KW - Plaute KW - Plautus, M. Attius KW - Plautus, Marcus Actius KW - Plautus, Marcus Accius KW - Plautus, Marcus Attius KW - Plauto, Marco Accio KW - Plautos, Titos Makkios KW - פלאוטוס KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Rome (Italy) KW - american pop culture references. KW - american references. KW - ancient comedy. KW - ancient rome. KW - ancient theater. KW - annotated. KW - anthology. KW - colonialism. KW - comedy plays. KW - contemporary audiences. KW - contextual introductions. KW - east west conflict. KW - eastern culture. KW - english translations. KW - history of drama. KW - imperialism. KW - modern comedy. KW - modernized translation. KW - orientalism. KW - plautus. KW - plays. KW - popular culture. KW - role of comedy. KW - roman playwright. KW - rome at war. KW - rome. KW - street lingo. KW - wartime audiences. KW - western culture. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3111158 AB - 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. ER -