![]() ![]() ![]() Anyway, there's surprisingly much for an au courant feminist reading to chomp on in this ancient little play. ![]() ![]() They might be the archetype-establishing MacGuffins in the Western canon-unless one is tempted, as I often am, to proclaim Homer's Helen the great-grandmother of all MacGuffins. On a more abstract level, both pot and daughter can be understood as MacGuffins, objects of desire that impel narrative action by their movement in fictional space. One might understand the confusion as satire of a society that objectifies and commodifies women to the point that even the most desirable among them is seen as no more human than a container of valuable coins. The work thus comments satyrically upon a society bonded by the circulation of women, a circulation entirely controlled, like the movements of the pot (symbolizing monetary circulation), by men. The comic confusion of goldpot and honeypot suggests an identification, a reading of the play in which the pot of gold rather obviously represents Euclio's unseen daughter (tellingly reduced to a symbol of her genitalia). There's an interesting misprision about halfway through Plautus's Aulularia ( The Pot of Gold), when the miserly Euclio misinterprets Lyconides confession of deflowering his (Euclio's) daughter as an admission of stealing the eponymous pot. Lyconides had violated his daughter’s chastity. He hides it deep down again and watches over it, pale with fear and full of anxiety. Euclio, a stingy old man who would barely trust himself, finds a pot with great wealth buried in his house. The Pot of Gold The Pot of Gold Plot Summary 1. But here goes: There's an interesting misprision about halfway through Plautus's Aulularia (The Pot of Gold), when the miserly Euclio misinterprets Lyconides confession of deflowering his (Euclio's) daughter as an admission of. THE POT OF GOLD by Plautus Writing about comedy is too often like explaining a joke-pointless and self-defeating. ![]()
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