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While Simia is inside with Ballio, Pseudolus worries about how the plan can go wrong. However, Simia emerges with Phoenicium, and Pseudolus rejoices, suggesting they celebrate. Ballio, who’d been alerted by Simo that Pseudolus intended to take Phoenicium, is pleased to be safe from Pseudolus now that Phoenicium has been delivered to Harpax.
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Often, insults are self-deprecating, as is the case between...
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Harpax, the Macedonian soldier’s slave, looks for Ballio’s...
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Calidorus, with great melodrama, explains to Pseudolus that...
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Simia is a slave of the father of Calidorus’s friend,...
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Pseudolus. Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE. A modern...
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The clever slave: Pseudolus and Simia are both slaves in this play and are both the smartest characters. Pseudolus comes up with a plan to get Phoenicium for Calidorus, and Simia helps carry out the plan. Pseudolus's plan is successful, and as a result of wagers made along the way, he gains 2,000 drachmae in the process.
Sep 5, 2023 · Pseudolus is a comedy with many elements of farce. While it pokes fun at the individual characters’ foibles, and its action hinges on stock devices such as deceit, disguise, and mistaken ...
Just as Plautus expanded the role of the clever slave, he is likely to have inserted himself this scene of Simo’s praise of Pseudolus, a scene which borders on hero worship. In the last scene of the play, Simo is subject to remarkable mood swings. In 1291–91a he decides to be gentle to Pseudolus, just as in the last scene of the fourth act ...
Often, insults are self-deprecating, as is the case between conniving slaves Pseudolus and Simia: when Simia assures Pseudolus he’s “got the scam right in” (942) his chest, Pseudolus exclaims, “What a fine fellow!” (943) to which Simia responds, “You can’t mean either of us” (943). Characters in Pseudolus are brazenly self-aware, and at times seem almost to brag about their ...
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Sep 5, 2023 · Summary. Pseudolus was written by Titus Maccius Plautus and is one of the oldest plays that survives from ancient Rome. The play begins with a warning that it’s long. After that, the story opens ...
