Roman Drama and its Contexts

by Frangoulidis, Stavros Harrison, S. J. Manuwald, Gesine

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Title Statements

Full title :Roman Drama and its Contexts.

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):De Gruyter
Place of Publication:Berlin/Boston, UNKNOWN
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 625 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:3110456508, 9783110456509, 9783110455588, 3110455587
DOI:10.1515/9783110456509
oclc:ocn945751885
LC Classification:PA6067
Dewey Decimal:930

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 Con…

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama Empire romain HISTORY -- Ancient Latein Latin drama Latin drama -- History and criticism Théâtre latin -- Histoire et critique