A Funny Thing Happend On The Way To The Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was set in the 3rd century B.C., in the streets of Rome. The play is dense and full of double meanings. Every character’s actions affect the behaviors of the other characters. The main conflict centers on Pseudolus, a slave in the household of Senex and Domina, a wealthy Roman family. Their son Hero has fallen for the courtesan, Philia, and yet she is to be purchased by Miles Gloriosus, a warrior. The main conflict is that Pseudolus wants to win his freedom and Hero will grant it if Pseudolus can help him win Philia. In the beginning, as Pseudolus looks on Hero and Philia, “There they are. Together. And I must keep them that way, together, if I am to be free. What to do? What to do?” (Shev

Philia has already been purchased by “The impossibly pompous braggart warrior” Miles Gloriosus, who covets her because she is a young and lovely virgin, (Shevelove 3). He pays a fortune for her. Pseudolus is so desperate to thwart Miles’s purchase that he tells Miles Gloriosus that his bride-to-be is dead. Psedolus is rescued when the character Erronius discovers that Miles Gloriosus and Philia are in fact his long-lost children. The many manipulations of Pseudolus, therefore, result in his freedom and in satisfaction for Hero.

The pubescent and love-sick Hero lives in an upper class home, but he is smitten with a courtesan, Philia, who lives in the house of Marcus Lycus. Hero enlists the help of his slave, Pseudolus, to win Philia away from the soldier who has purchased her. Hero’s parents do not think

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