The <i>decorum</i> in Plautus' discourse before a distracted reception: the design of a <i>cavea ridens</i>in <i>Stichus</i>

  • Aldo Rubén Pricco
Keywords: scaena, cavea, rhetoric operations, Plautine dramaturgy, aesthetic consumption

Abstract

Facing an audience with unpredictable interests, Plautine statements are in charge of producing a spectatorial attachment of the actio with rhetoric operations aimed to capture and maintain the attention of the audience. Thus, the interaction scaena / cavea is sustained by linguistic, pragmatic and compositional devices from the fabulae. The play Stichus is a paradigm of such procedures, displayed in a fictionis dispositio apparently anomalous. From a performatic perspective, that presumed abnormality could be analyzed as a deliberate procedure that deals with the discontinuity of the audience’s attention and proposes a scenic enunciation adapted to its aesthetic consumption. 

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Pricco, A. R. (1). The <i>decorum</i> in Plautus’ discourse before a distracted reception: the design of a <i>cavea ridens</i>in <i>Stichus</i&gt;. Anales De Filología Clásica, 1(29), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.34096/afc.v1i29.4199
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