Seneca's Tragedies and the Theatres of their Time
Opportunities or Obstacles for Staging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4082574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christoph Kugelmeier (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 95 |
| Pages | 59-81 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pallas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-0387 • E-ISSN: 2272-7639 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/pallas.1671 |
| OpenAlex | W1768411290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
In order to come closer to an answer to the question, whether or not Senecas tragedies were intended to be staged, mere discretion by intra-textual evidences is not enough. It is not sufficient to use the features of Roman theatre buildings in general to clear the facts, as is sometimes done. The stage of the time of Plautus and Terence, for instance, seems to differ significantly from what we find in the well-known, representative theatres of the Late Republic and of the Imperial era. But even in the period between the late Republican Theatre of Pompey in Rome and, for example, the Early Imperial theatre of Aspendos in Anatolia, some structural and technical advancements can be noted. For a potential production of Senecan drama we have to take into account the results of archaeological research on the development of stage building during the poet’s lifetime, and consequently carefully explore the possibilities and limits to a realisation of the text into a theatre play under these conditions. This is the attempt of this paper
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |