[PDF] Roman Republican Theatre eBook

Author : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1139499742

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Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus and Terence the sources are fragmentary and difficult to interpret and contextualise. This book provides a comprehensive history of all aspects of the topic, incorporating recent findings and modern approaches. It discusses the origins of Roman drama and the historical, social and institutional backgrounds of all the dramatic genres to be found during the Republic (tragedy, praetexta, comedy, togata, Atellana, mime and pantomime). Possible general characteristics are identified, and attention is paid to the nature of and developments in the various genres. The clear structure and full bibliography also ensure that the book has value as a source of reference for all upper-level students and scholars of Latin literature and ancient drama.

Author : Gesine Manuwald
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Latin drama
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"Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus and Terence the sources are fragmentary and difficult to interpret and contextualise. This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of all aspects of the topic, incorporating recent findings and modern approaches. It discusses the origins of Roman drama and the historical, social and institutional backgrounds of all the dramatic genres to be found during the Republic (tragedy, praetexta, comedy, togata, Atellana, mime and pantomime). Possible general characteristics are identified, and attention is paid to the nature of and developments in the various genres. The clear structure and full bibliography also ensure that the book has value as a source of reference for all upper-level students and scholars of Latin literature and ancient drama"-- Provided by publisher.

Author : Amy Richlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1108216439

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Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared - natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty - and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape - all complicated by the actors' maleness. Comedy starts with anger.

Author : Richard C. Beacham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674779143

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Provides a general account of the Roman theater and its audience, and records some of the results of the author's experiments in constructing a full-scale replica stage based upon the wall paintings at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and producing Roman plays upon it.

Author : Timothy J. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521138183

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An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts.

Author : Dorota Dutsch
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0299303144

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About the role of women in Roman Republican plays of all genres, and about the role of gender in the influence of this on later dramatists

Author : George Harrison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004245456

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Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.

Author : George William Mallory Harrison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004244573

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This series has existed for the past 50 years. It provides a forum for the publication of well over 300 scholarly works on all aspects of the ancient world, including inscriptions, papyri, language, the history of material culture and mentality, the history of peoples and institutions, but also latterly the classical tradition, for example, neo-latin literature and the history of Classical scholarship.

Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139827251

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This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.