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Roman drama is a genre of Latin literature that was influential both in the cultural life of the ancient Romans and in the European theatre tradition. Plays of Plautus, Terence and Seneca are still very well known today; yet there were numerous works by other poets besides, though they survive only in fragmentary form. On the basis of a selection of paradigmatic sample texts by a number of Roman dramatists, this anthology provides a stimulating overview of the entire literary genre, including its various subtypes (tragedy, praetexta, comedy, togata, mime) and its historical development. To make these texts accessible to a wide readership, new English translations (on facing pages) as well as introductions to the individual excerpts and to the general context have been included. A selection of relevant testimonia provides information about the cultural background to Roman drama and ancient views on this literary genre. Paradigmatic extracts from dramas written in England between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries illustrate the continuing influence of Roman plays.Thus this anthology conveniently documents the history of an interesting and exciting literary genre from its beginnings to the modern period.
Contents
Preface Notes for the Reader Introduction: Overview of Roman DramaI 1 Background and evolution I 2 Dramatic genres I 3 Dramatic poets I 4 Occasions and venues I 5 Actors and productions I 6 Audiences 17 Poetry and performance I 8 Form and style I 9 Characteristics and developments I 10 Reception and transmissionIllustrations Appendix 1 Roman dramatic poets and their plays Appendix 2 Chronological table Testimonia on Roman DramaT 1 On the introduction of drama to Rome (Liv. 7.2; Val. Max. 2.4.4)T 2 On the introduction of Greek literature to Rome (Hor. Epist. 2.1.145-67)T 3 On the dates of the early dramatists (Cic. Brut. 71-6; Gell. NA 17.21.42-9)T 4 On the assessment of comic poets (Volcacius Sedigitus, fr. 1 FPL3, ap. Gell. NA 15.24)T 5 On the assessment of early Roman dramatists (Hor. Epist. 2.1.50-62)T 6 On the assessment of Roman dramatists (Quint. Inst. 10.1.97-100)T 7 On theatre buildings (Vitr. 5.6; Tert. Spect. 10.1-9)T 8 On the development of theatre buildings (Val. Max. 2.4.1-3, 6)T 9 On revival performances of 'old' plays (Plaut. Cas. 5-20) (some fragments) D 2 Ennius, Medea exul (all fragments) D 3 Pacuvius, Medus (all fragments) D 4 Pacuvius, on Fortuna (one long fragment) D 5 Accius, Medea sive Argonautae (some fragments) D 6 Accius, Brutus (some fragments) D 7 Plautus, Amphitruo 1-152 (prologue) D 8 Plautus, Miles gloriosus 1-78 (I 1) D 9 Caecilius Statius, Plocium (Gellius, NA 2.23) D 10 Terence, Eunuchus 232-64 (II 2); 771-816 (IV 7) D 11 Terence, Adelphoe 26-81 (I 1); 81-154 (I 2) D 12 Afranius, Divortium (all fragments) D 13 Decimus Laberius and Publilius Syrus (Macrob. Sat. 2.7.1-10) D 14 Seneca, Medea 150-78; 893-977 D 15 Pseudo-Seneca, Octavia 377-592 Nachleben of Roman DramaN 1 Nicholas Udall (1552), Roister Doister (Prologue; IV 7-8) N 2 William Shakespeare (early 1590s), The Comedy of Errors (III 1) N 3 Matthew Gwinne (1603), Nero (II 3) N 4 John Dryden (1690), Amphitryon; or The Two Sosias (I 1) N 5 Tony Harrison (1985), Medea: a sex-war opera (openings of acts 1 and 2)Bibliography and Further Reading
