Open AccessCásina: um desejo picante
Author(s) -
Carol Martins da Rocha
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
nuntius antiquus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7064
pISSN - 1983-3636
DOI - 10.17851/1983-3636.7.1.31-44
Subject(s) - pleasure , comedy , plot (graphics) , motif (music) , art , representation (politics) , psychology , aesthetics , literature , mathematics , statistics , neuroscience , politics , political science , law
As usually occurs in Plautus’ comedy, in Casina the search for pleasure is an important motif of the plot. However in this play pleasure is represented – whether figuratively, whether more directly – in a particular mood. Besides a very recurrent use of metaphors and images related to scents and flavoring, there are notorious much more explicit (and not so commonly found in Plautine texts) mentions to the erotic desire and sexual intercourse. Evincing the uarietas in which pleasure is referred to in Casina, this article aims to reflect on how such a representation affects the composition of the Plautine plot. In Casina some sexual references also contribute to allude to another kind of pleasure: the one that comes from theater, represented in this comedy by a play-within-a-play.