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Esta publicação apresenta um estudo introdutório e didáctico à leitura de As Báquides de Plauto, no qual se analisam o contexto e as características da peça, a estrutura e as personagens, e ainda o problema da originalidade plautina na conceptualização do 'terceiro engano'. This publication presents an introductory study, of didactic nature, to Plautus' Bacchides. Aspects related to the context, the characteristics, the structure and the characters of the play are discussed, as well as the problem of Plautus' originality regarding the creation of the 'third deception'.

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Esta publicação apresenta um estudo introdutório e didáctico à leitura de As Báquides de Plauto, no qual se analisam o contexto e as características da peça, a estrutura e as personagens, e ainda o problema da originalidade plautina na conceptualização do 'terceiro engano'. This publication presents an introductory study, of didactic nature, to Plautus' Bacchides. Aspects related to the context, the characteristics, the structure and the characters of the play are discussed, as well as the problem of Plautus' originality regarding the creation of the 'third deception'.

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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.

Latin drama --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Latin drama - History and criticism --- Drama. --- Roman literature. --- comedy. --- tragedy.

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Dem Anfang eines Textes kommt für dessen Gesamtwirkung und Verständnis eine herausragende Bedeutung zu - umso mehr, wenn der Text wie die plautinischen Komödien zur Aufführung bestimmt ist. Die Prologe des Plautus verschaffen dem Publikum nicht nur einfach einen Überblick über die Rahmendaten der Handlung. Sie erschaffen auf der Bühne eine Parallelwelt, die dennoch der Zuschauerrealität verbunden bleibt, strukturieren die Wahrnehmung des Publikums und wirken über die Herstellung von Spannung und Komik weit in die Komödien hinein. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Prologe nicht, wie zumeist der Fall, isoliert, sondern analysiert im Querschnitt wiederkehrende funktionale Elemente und Strukturen. Sie zeigt so die Gemeinsamkeiten innerhalb des heterogenen Textcorpus, bevor sie in einem zweiten Schritt deren virtuose Variation im Dienste der individuellen Komödie und ihrer Aussage würdigt.

Latin drama (Comedy) --- History and criticism. --- Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Plautus. --- comedy. --- prologue. --- suspense.

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"Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the dramaturgical development of European theatre. 'The Senecan Aesthetic' surveys the multifarious ways in which Senecan tragedy has been staged, from the Renaissance up to the present day: plundered for neo-Latin declamation and seeping into the blood-soaked revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's contemporaries, seasoned with French neoclassical rigour, and inflated by Restoration flamboyance. In the mid-18th century, the pincer movement of naturalism and philhellenism began to squeeze Seneca off the stage until August Wilhelm Schlegel's shrill denunciation silenced what he called its 'frigid bombast'. The Senecan aesthetic, repressed but still present, staged its return in the twentieth century in the work of Antonin Artaud, who regarded Seneca as "the greatest tragedian of history." This volume restores Seneca to a canonical position among the playwrights of antiquity, recognizing him as one of the most important, most revered, and most reviled, and in doing so reveals how theory, practice, and scholarship have always been interdependent and inseparable."

Seneca [Younger] --- Latin drama (Tragedy) --- Latin drama (Tragedy). --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Seneca, L. Annaeus --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tragedies (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus). --- Tragedies (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus) --- History and criticism --- Aesthetics --- Tragedies.