الأزياء و العباءة و دورها في تطور الحدث الدارمي في مسرحيتي "التوءمان مينايخموس" (Menaechmi)‎ و "الحمير" (Asinaria)‎ لبلاوتوس

الملخص EN

Clothes in Roman theater determined the status and social class of the characters, and this, in turn, may have moved to separate audience seats according to social classes in public theaters, games and festivals, where the clothes were the most characteristic of the Roman audience sitting in the theater.

Plautus' characters passed between Greek and Roman costumes, and it is noteworthy that the Roman comedy added to the traditional Greek dress what was inevitable, the Roman toga, although it is not specifically mentioned as clothing anywhere in Plautus; And the plays which remained to us from the Roman comedy, and which their writers quoted its from the modern Greek comedies, with their characters and clothes, was known as the “palliata” in relation to the Greek cloak that men wore on the Roman stage and was known by the name pallium, while which worn by women was known by the name palla.

The characters who rushing to the stage in search of their masters to announce news to them, play a prominent role in the development of the plot by the monologues which they deliver.

and the term servus currens was not limited to him, but also included every person who ran rushing into the stage in the same style of a slave who wrapped a cloak around his neck, and has news that enriches the dramatic event, so that the parasite Ergasilus was not the only Parasitus currens in the Plautine Theatre, but we find the parasite Curculio played the same role in “Curculio” (v.280-298).

Plautus in the scenes of stealing the cloak in the two plays " Menaechmi" and "Asinaria", creates a dramatic effect through the interaction between the actor and the audience, where we find his characters not only trying to convince the audience of the reality of their situation or attract their attention, but also by making their requests to the audience directly, where we find the characters ask the audience to help them to find their lost things.