The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19937433
AutoresC W Marshall (0000-0001-6669-3231, University of British Columbia, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Data de publicação2006-11-02
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoStagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511486203
OpenAlexW4297668621
Open LibraryOL22740098M
ISBN9780511486203
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas80

A comprehensive survey of Roman theatrical production, this book examines all aspects of Roman performance practice, and provides fresh insights on the comedies of Plautus and Terence. Following an introductory chapter on the experience of Roman comedy from the perspective of Roman actors and the Roman audience, addressing among other things the economic concerns of putting on a play in the Roman republic, subsequent chapters provide detailed studies of troupe size and the implications for role assignment, masks, stage action, music, and improvisation in the plays of Plautus and Terence. Marshall argues that Roman comedy was raw comedy, much more rough-and-ready than its Hellenistic precursors, but still fully conscious of its literary past. The consequences of this lead to fresh conclusions concerning the dramatic structure of Roman comedy, and a clearer understanding of the relationship between the plays-as-text and the role of improvisation during performance

Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Improvisation · Literature · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · History and criticism · Latin drama · Latin drama (Comedy) · Latin drama, history and criticism