Roman Drama And Roman History

Author : Timothy Peter Wiseman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015048748159

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Roman Drama and Roman History by Timothy Peter Wiseman Pdf

In this sequel to Historiography And Imagination (UEP 1994), Professor Wiseman explores the question of how the Romans understood their own past and the role of early drama in generating and transmitting legends. The first six of the book's twelve essays are concerned with stories and scenarios in the surviving literature which are best explained as having been first created for the stage. The other essays discuss the family traditions of Roman aristocrats, the rites of spring enjoyed by the Roman plebs, the use of Roman history in the radical politics of the nineteenth century, and how a great modern Roman historian exploited the novelist's art. The book is designed to be accessible to anyone with an interest in the ancient world, and all Latin and Greek is translated.

Author : William J. Slater
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0472107216

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Roman Theater and Society by William J. Slater Pdf

A thought-provoking and timeless volume, presenting Roman theater as the voice of the common citizen

Author : William Beare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Latin drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106015456293

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The Roman Stage by William Beare Pdf

Author : Anthony J. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Katherine M. D. Dunbabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 0801456886

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Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin Pdf

Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in population and language. A wide and varied range of entertainment was available to a Roman audience: the traditional festivals with their athletic contests and dramatic performances, pantomime and mime, the chariot races of the circus, and the gladiatorial shows and wild beast hunts of the arena. In Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire, which is richly illustrated in color throughout, Katherine M. D. Dunbabin emphasizes the visual evidence for these events.Images of spectacle appear in a wide range of artistic media, from the mosaics and paintings that decorated wealthy private houses to the sculpture of tomb monuments, and from luxury objects such as silver tableware to more humble ceramic lamps and pottery vessels. Dunbabin places the information derived from this visual material into the wider context provided by the written sources, both literary and epigraphic. This allows us to understand the functions that these images served in the social rituals of public and domestic life. By explicating both the social and cultural role of the spectacles themselves and the nature of their representation in art, Dunbabin provides a comprehensive portrait of the popular culture of the period.

Author : Timothy J. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499743

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Roman Republican Theatre by Gesine Manuwald Pdf

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
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0715638696

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Roman Drama by Gesine Manuwald Pdf

Roman drama is a genre of Latin literature that was influential both in the cultural life of the ancient Romans and in the European theatre tradition. Plays of Plautus, Terence and Seneca are still very well known today; yet there were numerous works by other poets besides, though they survive only in fragmentary form. On the basis of a selection of paradigmatic sample texts by a number of Roman dramatists, this anthology provides a stimulating overview of the entire literary genre, including its various subtypes (tragedy, praetexta, comedy, togata, mime) and its historical development. To make these texts accessible to a wide readership, new English translations (on facing pages) as well as introductions to the individual excerpts and to the general context have been included. A selection of relevant testimonia provides information about the cultural background to Roman drama and ancient views on this literary genre. Paradigmatic extracts from dramas written in England between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries illustrate the continuing influence of Roman plays. Thus this anthology conveniently documents the history of an interesting and exciting literary genre from its beginnings to the modern period.

Author : W Beare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032772743

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The Roman Stage by W Beare Pdf

The Roman Stage (1964) gives a connected account of the drama of ancient Rome in its historical setting. Using original source material, whole plays as well as fragments, of tragedies, comedies and farces, it traces the development of theatre in Rome, and notes the historical importance of these plays - the Elizabeth world looked back with reverence on the days 'when Roscius was an actor in Rome' (Hamlet). It also examines the physical conditions of drama in Rome - the types of theatres, and their place in the lives of the Roman inhabitants.

Author : Timothy Peter Wiseman
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0859894223

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Historiography and Imagination by Timothy Peter Wiseman Pdf

This work focuses on some of the more unfamiliar aspects of the Roman experience, where the historian needs not just knowledge but also imagination. It expores how the Romans made sense of their past and how people today can understand that history, despite the inadequate evidence for early Rome and the Republic. All Latin and Greek source material is translated. The first essay in this collection was the Ronald Syme Lecture for 1993; "The Origins of Roman Historiography" argues that dramatic performances at the public games were the medium through which the Romans in the "pre-literary" period made sense of their own past.

Author : George William Mallory Harrison,Vaios Liapēs,Vayos Liapis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004244573

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Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre by George William Mallory Harrison,Vaios Liapēs,Vayos Liapis Pdf

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 : Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen J. Harrison,Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110455588

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

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.

Author : Marianne McDonald,Michael Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Richard C. Beacham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0674779142

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The Roman Theatre and Its Audience by Richard C. Beacham Pdf

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 : Dorota Dutsch,Sharon L. James,David Konstan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 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