Roman Drama and its Contexts

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-058068-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 638 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their ‘context’, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in classical drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frangoulidis, Stavros

Manuwald, Gesine

Harrison, Stephen J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

G. Manuwald, University College London, UK; S. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK; S. Frangoulidis, Aristotle University, Greece.