Description
Book SynopsisMario 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.
Trade Review"This book is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time." oGuy MacLean Rogers, Professor of Classics and History, Wellesley College
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Theatre to Theatricality
- Chapter 1: Creating Tragedy
- Livius Andronicus
- Naevius
- Ennius
- The Audience
- Chapter 2: Theatricalizing Tragedy
- 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
