Comic Spaces and Plautus’ Rudens

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" Comic Spaces and Plautus’ Rudens "
Foot, Timothy J.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	937133
Doc. No	:	LA90q29089
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Foot, Timothy J.
Title & Author	:	Comic Spaces and Plautus’ Rudens [Article]\ Foot, Timothy J.
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/1
Date	:	2013
Abstract	:	While there has been a resurgence in the study of the much maligned genre of Roman Comedy, the majority of work has focused on points philological, socio-political, and on comic word-play. Among Plautus’ work, the Rudens stands alone as a play set outside a city, as the most prolific Roman comedic playwright takes us to the seaside for a classic whirlwind farce revolving around a lost daughter, a besotted lover, mistaken identities, and prostitutes. The unique setting of this play allows the modern audience an insight into the spatial tensions within the Roman mind, as we explore what happens where sea and land meet.