03532nam 2200625 a 450 991077769540332120230617010637.00-292-79754-010.7560/702424(CKB)1000000000453884(OCoLC)614978272(CaPaEBR)ebrary10188328(SSID)ssj0000239328(PQKBManifestationID)11173993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239328(PQKBWorkID)10239035(PQKB)11095104(OCoLC)60567355(MdBmJHUP)muse19297(Au-PeEL)EBL3443030(CaPaEBR)ebr10188328(MiAaPQ)EBC3443030(DE-B1597)586659(DE-B1597)9780292797543(EXLCZ)99100000000045388420040129d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRoman tragedy[electronic resource] theatre to theatricality /Mario Erasmo1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20041 online resource (224 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-70242-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction THEATRE TO THEATRICALITY -- One CREATING TRAGEDY -- Two THEATRICALIZING TRAGEDY -- Three DRAMATIZING HISTORY -- Four CREATING METATRAGEDY -- Five METATRAGEDY -- APPENDIX Tragedies listed by Dramatist -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXRoman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., making it difficult to define the role of tragedy in ancient Roman culture. Nevertheless, in this pioneering book, Mario 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. Performing a philological analysis of texts informed by semiotic theory and audience reception, Erasmo pursues two main questions in this study: how does Roman tragedy become metatragedy, and how did off-stage theatricality come to compete with the theatre? Working chronologically, he looks at how plays began to incorporate a rhetoricized reality on stage, thus pointing to their own theatricality. And he shows how this theatricality, in turn, came to permeate society, so that real events such as the assassination of Julius Caesar took on theatrical overtones, while Pompey's theatre opening and the lavish spectacles of the emperor Nero deliberately blurred the lines between reality and theatre. Tragedy eventually declined as a force in Roman culture, Erasmo suggests, because off-stage reality became so theatrical that on-stage tragedy could no longer compete.Latin drama (Tragedy)History and criticismTheaterHistoryTo 500TheaterRomeLatin drama (Tragedy)History and criticism.TheaterHistoryTheater872/.0109Erasmo Mario623971MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777695403321Roman tragedy1097280UNINA