Roman Historical Drama
The Octavia In Antiquity and Beyond
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 December 2015
- ISBN 9780198718291
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages492 pages
- Size 241x162x27 mm
- Weight 926 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 39 illustrations 0
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Roman Historical Drama is the first comprehensive interpretation of ancient historical drama in relation to the Octavia, revealing how the play mirrors the genre's traditions by mixing formats and stock characters from traditional tragedy with elements drawn from new developments of the Hellenistic and Roman stage.
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The Octavia is the only surviving historical drama from ancient Rome. With a plot rich in sex, dynastic intrigue, riots, and murder, the play's characters include the philosopher Seneca, the emperor Nero, the ghost of his murdered mother, his wife Octavia, and his mistress and empress-to-be Poppaea. For centuries dismissed as a feeble, rhetorically overblown closet-drama written without consideration for the demands of plot or stage, the Octavia's dynamic changes of time and setting, its startling interplay of the verbal and visual, and its integration of issues pervading the politics of the period in which it was written, reflect scenic conventions and a notion of the dramatic that radically transforms and expands our knowledge of ancient theatre and the Roman stage.
Roman Historical Drama is the first comprehensive interpretation of ancient historical drama in relation to this exciting play, revealing how the Octavia mirrors the genre's traditions by mixing formats and stock characters from traditional tragedy with elements drawn from new developments of the Hellenistic and Roman stage. The volume explores the role and impact of historical (and political) drama in Rome, offering a pioneering reading of the Octavia in relation to ancient performance practice, as well as to the politics of those who in AD 68 brought down the tyrant Nero. In its final section, the volume provides a panoramic survey of the revival and reinvention of classical tragedy in the Renaissance period, tracing the impact of the Octavia from Italy through France to Elizabethan England.
Kragelund shows himself impressively in command of the primary evidence and an extensive multi-lingual bibliography
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: The Tradition
Recovering a Lost Genre
Republican Flourishing and Imperial Decline?
Genre and Its Uses
Accius
Romans Fighting Romans
Stages Old and New
Imperial praetextae
Part II: The Octavia
A praetexta?
Time and Place
Plot and Historical Background
Octavia and the People
Seneca and Nero
The Ghost, the Divorce, and the Wedding
What Poppaea Saw
The Revolt, the Fire, and the Ship of Death
The Time of Writing
Part III: The Afterlife
Tragic Pasts
Bibliography
Index locorum
Index of Persons, Subjects, and Places
