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Here in Casina, everyone but Chalinus has just exited to the house. Olympio (and thus Lysidamus) won the lottery to marry Casina, so they’re all off to prepare for the wedding.
This being a comedy where the “lovers love each other” part of the story is considered so insignificant that neither of said lovers ever appear on the stage, of course it’s not going to end there. So we pick up with an actual monologue. Yay, monologue!
( Act 2, Scene 7 )
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Anyway, that takes us to the end of the second act. The third act of the play has about half the total wordcount, so that'll be a few separate posts over the next few weeks. If I'm lucky, I can get ahead over spring break, because I really need to start working on my paper for this class.
My long, complicated paper which I don't have a very good thesis for yet. Right now I'm going through Plautus' other plays (in the sense of skimming plot summaries, then reading particular scenes if they seem relevant) to try to pick between one of two possible paper topics: one would be about slave girls in Plautus, with a focus on Pardalisca (and her unseen foil, Casina) in this play; the other would be discussing interactions between slaves, in this play and other Plautus.
Unfortunately, those are both good topics in the sense of being nice and narrow. Because there's not so many instances of each to have a zillion papers written on them already. Which makes research... interestingly challenging. But, hey! If there was a ton of material already, there'd be no point in my writing about it too.
This being a comedy where the “lovers love each other” part of the story is considered so insignificant that neither of said lovers ever appear on the stage, of course it’s not going to end there. So we pick up with an actual monologue. Yay, monologue!
( Act 2, Scene 7 )
---
Anyway, that takes us to the end of the second act. The third act of the play has about half the total wordcount, so that'll be a few separate posts over the next few weeks. If I'm lucky, I can get ahead over spring break, because I really need to start working on my paper for this class.
My long, complicated paper which I don't have a very good thesis for yet. Right now I'm going through Plautus' other plays (in the sense of skimming plot summaries, then reading particular scenes if they seem relevant) to try to pick between one of two possible paper topics: one would be about slave girls in Plautus, with a focus on Pardalisca (and her unseen foil, Casina) in this play; the other would be discussing interactions between slaves, in this play and other Plautus.
Unfortunately, those are both good topics in the sense of being nice and narrow. Because there's not so many instances of each to have a zillion papers written on them already. Which makes research... interestingly challenging. But, hey! If there was a ton of material already, there'd be no point in my writing about it too.