Mostellaria
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Mostellaria is a comedic Roman play by Plautus, best known for its farcical plot involving a clever slave, a duped father, and a supposedly haunted house.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman comedy play
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theatrical work ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle | The Haunted House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| audienceReactionIntended | laughter ⓘ |
| author | Plautus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | lost Greek original ⓘ |
| centralPlotDevice | supposedly haunted house ⓘ |
| character |
Callidamates
NERFINISHED
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Philematium NERFINISHED ⓘ Philolaches NERFINISHED ⓘ Simo NERFINISHED ⓘ Theopropides NERFINISHED ⓘ Tranio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ancient Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType |
clever slave
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courtesan ⓘ strict father ⓘ young lover ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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farce ⓘ |
| hasModernPerformances | true ⓘ |
| influenced |
European Renaissance comedy
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later haunted-house farces ⓘ |
| literaryForm | fabula palliata ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Roman Republican literature ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Roman New Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
deception
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family conflict ⓘ trickery ⓘ |
| meter | various Roman comic meters ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | elaborate ruse about a ghost ⓘ |
| notableFor |
clever slave outwitting his master
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haunted-house deception plot ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf | Plautine corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | extant ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Tranio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | slave ⓘ |
| setting | Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | divided into acts and scenes ⓘ |
| studiedIn | classics curricula ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | 3rd–2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | The Haunted House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalFeature |
use of dramatic irony
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use of mistaken identity ⓘ use of stock characters ⓘ |
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