Roman Historical Drama - The Octavia in Antiquity and Beyond

Zusatztext a welcome and necessary addition ... The investigation of both the origins and the afterlife of this drama speaks in a very engaging but overall accessible manner to a wide audience in the field of Roman literature, history, theatre, and reception studies. Informationen zum Autor Patrick Kragelund holds doctorates in Classics and the reception of classics from the University of Copenhagen and has been Director of the Danish National Art Library since 1998. He has published widely on Roman history, literature, drama, and epigraphy, as well as on the reception of the classics in post-renaissance art. Klappentext Roman Historical Drama is the first comprehensive interpretation of ancient historical drama in relation to the Octavia, revealing how the play mirrors the genre's traditions by mixing formats and stock characters from traditional tragedy with elements drawn from new developments of the Hellenistic and Roman stage. Zusammenfassung Roman Historical Drama is the first comprehensive interpretation of ancient historical drama in relation to the Octavia, revealing how the play mirrors the genre's traditions by mixing formats and stock characters from traditional tragedy with elements drawn from new developments of the Hellenistic and Roman stage. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Part I: The Tradition 1: Recovering a Lost Genre 2: Republican Flourishing and Imperial Decline? 3: Genre and Its Uses 4: Accius 5: Romans Fighting Romans 6: Stages Old and New 7: Imperial praetextae Part II: The Octavia 8: A praetexta? 9: Time and Place 10: Plot and Historical Background 11: Octavia and the People 12: Seneca and Nero 13: The Ghost, the Divorce, and the Wedding 14: What Poppaea Saw 15: The Revolt, the Fire, and the Ship of Death 16: The Time of Writing Part III: The Afterlife 17: Tragic Pasts Bibliography Index locorum Index of Persons, Subjects, and Places ...

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Kragelund, Patrick (Director Kragelund, Kragelund Patrick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198718291
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871829-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights