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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.

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Stage design. Scenography --- toneelgeschiedenis --- Theatrical science --- Italy --- Latin drama --- -Theater --- -Theater audiences --- -Audiences, Theater --- Theater --- Theatergoers --- Performing arts --- Theater attendance --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Acting --- Actors --- Latin literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Audiences --- -History and criticism --- Rome --- Theater audiences --- Theater - Rome - History. --- Theater audiences - Rome - History. --- Latin drama - History and criticism. --- Theater - Rome --- Theater audiences - Rome --- Latin drama - History and criticism --- Theater - History - To 500

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This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place of Laberius' work within its historical and literary context. This is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic, metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective.

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Classical Latin literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Theater and society --- Latin drama --- History --- Congresses --- History and criticism --- Rome --- Social conditions --- Congresses. --- -Theater and society --- -Actors --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Latin literature --- -Congresses --- Social status --- Social aspects --- -Congresses. --- -History and criticism --- Actors --- History and criticism&delete& --- History&delete& --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Theater and society - Rome - History - Congresses --- Latin drama - History and criticism - Congresses --- Rome - Social conditions - Congresses

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This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.

Theater --- Greek drama --- Latin drama --- Théâtre --- Théâtre grec --- Théâtre latin --- History --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism --- Théâtre --- Théâtre grec --- Théâtre latin --- Classical Latin literature --- Classical Greek literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Theater - Greece - History - To 500 --- Greek drama - History and criticism --- Theater - Rome - History - To 500 --- Latin drama - History and criticism