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ROMAN EMPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPf27gAup9U
12 min.
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TERENCE185-159 B.C.E.
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LIFE OF DRAMA
Born in Carthage
Brought to Rome as a slave
thought to have been freed by his owner
interacted with high society
secondary evidence- debated
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TERENCE’S COMEDIES
plots are complicated
language is more “literary”
style is less exaggerated than Plautus
less physical comedy (slapstick) than Plautus
comedy is in the words (sparring)
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THE EUNUCH
Prologue- addresses audience directly
Double Plot
Mistaken Identities
Who is the Eunuch?
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PROLOGUE
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STOCK CHARACTERS
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BRAGGART SOLDIER
◦ Loves himself more than anything else◦ Very stupid, cowardly, and gullible
◦ Interested in the same girl as the adulescens most of the time
Miles Gloriosus
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PARASITE/FRIENDLeeches off the main characters by emptying their tables
Parasitus
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COURTESANMeretrix, Prostitute- different types
◦ Serves little more than as an object of the young lover’s affection, leading figure in love with the young
lover. Sometimes she is bought by the young lover, sometimes she turns out to be freeborn, discovers this,
and marries the young lover.◦ OR greedy and older
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CLEVER SLAVE
Always finds a solution to the young master’s love problems (often humiliating his young master’s father) and
tends to earn his freedom for doing so
Servus Callidus
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MASTER OF THE SLAVE (ADULESCENS)
falls in love with the virgin
Falls in love with a courtesan he cannot have, master of the tricky slave. Thinks of nothing except the girl he is
in love with
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VIRGIN-YOUNG MAIDEN
Love interest of the adulescens, doesn’t get much stage time, beautiful and virtuous with little personality.
Treated as a prize
virgo
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FATHER OF THE ADULESCENS
Often the father of the young lover, authority figure who gives wisdom to the young man and is very traditional – this view often contrasts with the young lover’s, causing conflict that is usually resolved by the old man giving in
to the young lover.
Senex
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MAID OR NURSE
Minor character used as a tool and messenger
Ancilla
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MOTHER
◦ Loves her children but is temperamental towards her husband
◦ Does not have to be devoted and loyal, but sometimes is
Matrona
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
cont.