An Introduction To Roman Tragedy

Author : Anthony J. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134696857

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Roman Tragedy by Anthony J. Boyle Pdf

The first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form, this landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome’s cultural and political life. Analyzing the work of such names as Ennius, Pacuvius and Accius, as well as Seneca and his post-Neronian successors, Anthony J. Boyle delves into detailed discussion on every Roman tragedian whose work survives in substance today. Roman Tragedy examines: the history of Roman tragic techniques and conventions the history of generic form and change the debt that Rome owes to Greece, and text owes to text the birth, development and death of Roman tragedy in the context of the cities evolving, institutions, ideologies and political and social practices tragedy proper and the historical drama (fabula praetexta), which the Romans allied to tragedy. With parallel English translations of Latin quotations, this seminal work not only provides an invaluable resource for students of theatre, Roman political history and cultural history, but it is also accessible to all interested in the social dynamics of writing, spectacle, ideology and power.

Author : Mario Erasmo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292782136

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Roman Tragedy by Mario Erasmo Pdf

Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., making it difficult to define the role of tragedy in ancient Roman culture. Nevertheless, in this pioneering book, Mario Erasmo draws on all the available evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the dramatist Seneca and to explore the role played by Roman culture in shaping the perception of theatricality on and off the stage. Performing a philological analysis of texts informed by semiotic theory and audience reception, Erasmo pursues two main questions in this study: how does Roman tragedy become metatragedy, and how did off-stage theatricality come to compete with the theatre? Working chronologically, he looks at how plays began to incorporate a rhetoricized reality on stage, thus pointing to their own theatricality. And he shows how this theatricality, in turn, came to permeate society, so that real events such as the assassination of Julius Caesar took on theatrical overtones, while Pompey's theatre opening and the lavish spectacles of the emperor Nero deliberately blurred the lines between reality and theatre. Tragedy eventually declined as a force in Roman culture, Erasmo suggests, because off-stage reality became so theatrical that on-stage tragedy could no longer compete.

Author : Timothy J. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521138185

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Roman Theatre by Timothy J. Moore Pdf

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004284784

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Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy by Anonim Pdf

Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy is the reader's 'back stage pass' into the hustle and bustle, the sights and sounds of Roman tragedy, stressing the creative collusion of Republican and Imperial drama and with the historical moment they inhabited.

Author : Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472519634

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Aeschylus: Eumenides by Robin Mitchell-Boyask Pdf

The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of the controversies over the relationship between the fledgling democracy of Athens and the dramas it produced during the City Dionysia, and over the representation of women in the theatre and their implied status in Athenian society. The "Eumenides" enacts the trial of Agamemnon's son Orestes, who had been ordered under the threat of punishment by the god Apollo to murder his mother Clytemnestra, who had earlier killed Agamemnon.In the "Eumenides", Orestes, hounded by the Eumenides (Furies), travels first to Delphi to obtain ritual purgation of his mother's blood, and then, at Apollo's urging, to Athens to seek the help of Athena, who then decides herself that an impartial jury of Athenians should decide the matter. Aeschylus thus presents a drama that shows a growing awareness of the importance of free will in Athenian thought through the mythologized institution of the first jury trial.

Author : Michael Kulikowski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674242715

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The Tragedy of Empire by Michael Kulikowski Pdf

A sweeping political history of the turbulent two centuries that led to the demise of the Roman Empire. The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes readers to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian’s rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne to the Sahara, could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a system of governance, called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, to respond to the vastness of the empire, its new rivals, and the changing face of its citizenry. Powerful enemies like the barbarian coalitions of the Franks and the Alamanni threatened the imperial frontiers. The new Sasanian dynasty had come into power in Persia. This was the political climate of the Roman world that Julian inherited. Kulikowski traces two hundred years of Roman history during which the Western Empire ceased to exist while the Eastern Empire remained politically strong and culturally vibrant. The changing structure of imperial rule, the rise of new elites, foreign invasions, the erosion of Roman and Greek religions, and the establishment of Christianity as the state religion mark these last two centuries of the Empire.

Author : A. J. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134802319

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Tragic Seneca by A. J. Boyle Pdf

Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus, analysing the declamatory form of the plays, their rhetoric, interiority, stagecraft and spectacle, dramatic, ideological and moral structure and their overt theatricality. Each of Seneca's plays is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture. The later chapters focus on Seneca's influence on Italian, English and French drama of the Renaissance. A.J. Boyle argues that tragedians such as Cinthio, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Corneille, and Racine owe a debt to Seneca that goes beyond allusion, dramatic form and the treatment of tyranny and revenge to the development of the tragic sensibility and the metatheatrical mind. Tragic Seneca attempts to restore Seneca to a central position in the European literary tradition. It will provide readers and directors of Seneca's plays with the essential critical guide to their intellectual, cultural and dramatic complexity.

Author : Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen J. Harrison,Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110456509

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Roman Drama and its Contexts by Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen J. Harrison,Gesine Manuwald Pdf

This volume takes a new approach to Roman drama by looking at comic and tragic plays from the Republican and imperial periods in ‘context’. By presenting a number of case studies and considerations of wider issues, the 33 international contributors explore the role of Roman drama in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation or the intellectual background.

Author : Marianne McDonald,Michael Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827256

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre by Marianne McDonald,Michael Walton Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004504813

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Racine’s Roman Tragedies by Anonim Pdf

In two of his most celebrated plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.

Author : William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002320888S

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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson Pdf

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307427519

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Rubicon by Tom Holland Pdf

A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition.

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : 0192100203

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Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Oliver Taplin Pdf

The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.

Author : Sophia Papaioannou,Agis Marinis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110709971

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Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic by Sophia Papaioannou,Agis Marinis Pdf

In the light of recent scholarly work on tragic patterns and allusions in Flavian epic, the publication of a volume exclusively dedicated to the relationship between Flavian epic and tragedy is timely. The volume, concentrating on the poetic works of Silius Italicus, Statius and Valerius Flaccus, consists of eight original contributions, two by the editors themselves and a further six by experts on Flavian epic. The volume is preceded by an introduction by the editors and it concludes with an ‘Afterword’ by Carole E. Newlands. Among key themes analysed are narrative patterns, strategies or type-scenes that appear to derive from tragedy, the Aristotelian notions of hamartia and anagnorisis, human and divine causation, the ‘transfer’ of individual characters from tragedy to epic, as well as instances of tragic language and imagery. The volume at hand showcases an array of methodological approaches to the question of the presence of tragic elements in epic. Hence, it will be of interest to scholars and students in the area of Classics or Literary Studies focusing on such intergeneric and intertextual connections; it will be also of interest to scholars working on Flavian epic or on the ancient reception of Greek and Roman tragedy.

Author : Dorota Dutsch,Sharon L. James,David Konstan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299303143

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Women in Roman Republican Drama by Dorota Dutsch,Sharon L. James,David Konstan Pdf

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