Roman tragedy : theatre to theatricality
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Roman tragedy : theatre to theatricality
University of Texas Press, 2004
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Bibliography: p. 193-205
Includes index
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内容説明
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.
目次
Preface Introduction: Theatre to Theatricality Chapter 1: Creating Tragedy Livius Andronicus Naevius Ennius The Audience Chapter 2: Theatricalizing Tragedy Pacuvius Accius Chapter 3: Dramatizing History Theatricality of History Staging History Chapter 4: Creating Metatragedy Pompey's Theatre Opening Staging Brutus Thyestes on the Roman Stage Nero: Imperator Scaenicus Chapter 5: Metatragedy Seneca's Actor-Audience From Tragedy to Metatragedy Appendix Bibliography Index
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