| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 625 pages) : illustrations |
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Trends in classics, supplementary volumes ; vol. 34 |
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 34.
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| Contents |
Part I. Roman comedy. Introduction: Roman drama and its contexts / Gesine Manuwald and Stavros Frangoulidis -- Some dramatic terminology / Richard Hunter -- Bacchus in Roman drama / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Speculating in unreal estate : locution, locution, locution / Niall W. Slater -- The kings of comedy / Amy Richlin -- Genre and social class, or comedy and the rhetoric of self-aggrandisement and self-deprecation / Alison Sharrock -- Sententiousness in Roman comedy : a moralising reading / Martin T. Dinter -- Plautus' Aulularia and popular narrative tradition / Ioannis M. Konstantakos -- Plautus undoing himself : what is funny and what is Plautine in Stichus and Trinummus? / Sophia Papaioannou -- Prologues between performance and fiction / Kathleen McCarthy -- All's well that ends well? : old fools, morality, and epilogues in Plautus / David Christenson -- Plautus' Curculio and the case of the pious pimp / T.H.M. Gellar-Goad -- The young man in Plautus' Asinaria 127-248 / C.W. Marshall -- Civic reassignment of space in the Truculentus / Robert Germany -- Nothing to do with fides? : the speaker of the prologue and the reproduction of citizenship in Plautus' Casina / Catherine Connors -- Symmetrical recognitions in Plautus' Epidicus / Katerina Philippides -- Basket case : material girl and animate object in Plautus's Cistellaria / Mario Telò -- Elements of pantomime in Plautus' comedies / Bernhard Zimmermann |
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Part II. Roman tragedy. -- History and philosophy in Roman republican drama and beyond / Gesine Manuwald -- Music in Roman tragedy / Timothy J. Moore -- Seneca, Horace and the poetics of transgression / Cedric Littlewood -- Tragic translatio : Epistle 107 and Senecan tragedy / Christopher Trinacty -- Seneca's Agamemnon : Mycenaean becoming Trojan / Stavros Frangoulidis -- When reason surrenders its authority : Thyestes' approach to Atreus' palace / David Konstan -- History as intertext and intertext as history in the Octavia / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg |
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Part III. Reception of comedy and tragedy. Terence and Satire / Ruth Rothaus Caston -- How to do things with words and pictures : text and image in the Parisian Terence / Dorota Dutsch -- Is the story of Susanna and the elders based on a Greek new comedy? / Michael Fontaine -- Terence's comedies in the Terentius Christianus : the case of Naaman / Antony Augoustakis -- Petronian spectacles : the widow of Ephesus generically revisited / Evangelos Karakasis -- Furur and kin(g)ship in Seneca's Thyestes and Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (1.700-850) / Theodoros Antoniadis -- Noises off : the Thyestes theme in Tacitus' Dialogus / Emily Gowers -- Seneca's Ted Hughes / Roland Mayer -- Seneca's Thyestes : three female translators in to English / Stephan Harrison |
| Summary |
Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their 'context', though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin drama -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Latin drama
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Latein
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Drama
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Empire romain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrison, S. J., editor
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Manuwald, Gesine, editor
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| ISBN |
3110456508 |
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9783110456509 |
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9783110455588 |
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3110455587 |
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