felixharrowgate @ 2008-11-17T01: 06:00
Title: Amphitruo
Author: Plautus
Language: Latin / German
Genre: Drama
Genre: tragicomedy
birth year: about 190 BC
Era: The fabric comes from
: pre-classical period
action ancient mythology. The legend of Amphitryon is taken up and it's the part as Zeus in the form of Amphitryon decides to amuse themselves with his wife, Alcmene. The fabric is originally tragic nature, also addressed the question of guilt, whether it is guilt, if you commit a crime without knowing it, that you are about to commit it. In the play
of Plautus, the forecast somewhat different. Zeus, Jupiter is here, while his son Hermes, who is to help him keep all at bay, while he is talking in a prolonged night by his divine will with the beautiful Alcmene . Hermes also slipped this in a different form, namely that of a servant (sosia) of Amphitryon, Amphitruo here. While the two originals have yet to return home from the war won. Like in a real comedy of errors take all deferred to each other and also the originals and the copies not be spared another. After much back and forth and forth and even Zeus replaced in its grace but the likelihood of the game on and the couple reconciled again.
Alcmene was pregnant - now from both her husband and the father of the gods - and finally gives birth to twins, with one son of Zeus and indeed a quite famous, namely Hercules. The other, Iphicles, is the son of the mortal Amphitruo.
personal approach:
The text me as surprisingly exhilarated. The translation is sometimes very rough and brutal (For example, the scenes between the true servant of the Amphitruo and in the transformed him Hermes, the scenes between the disguised Hermes and the real Amphitruo in their rudeness shown to their very amusing). Surprisingly, it is one of the few Verwechslüngskomödien where I was not mad before frustration over a thousand misconceptions to the contrary. Especially the questions and theories and the analysis about which sosia to prove hard to ensure that he was actually he himself is very belachenswert.
all in all, the tragicomedy has also reminds strongly of the types of the commedia dell'arte. The horny old goat = Zeus, a seemingly goofy term Servant who is not as stupid as it first appears = sosia, and the eternal theme of the paramour of several men over a woman;
the translation on the way, is a thousand times zeno.org wing regularly and funnier than that of the bilingual Reclam edition, which in fact is boring.
