Roman historical drama : the Octavia in antiquity and beyond /

This book first examines the fragmentary evidence for Roman historical dramas (praetextae), from 200 BC down to 100 AD. Discussion centres on the genre's kinship with tragedy as well as on generic specifics: the use of historical topics and local formats, of an aetiological and teleological per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kragelund, Patrick (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, > approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. > Influence. Octavia (Praetexta) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, > approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Historical drama, Latin > History and criticism. Latin drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism. Theater > Rome. Tragédie latine > Histoire et critique. Théâtre > Rome. Historical drama, Latin Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Latin drama (Tragedy) Theater Rome (Empire) Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Part I. The Tradition
1. Recovering a lost genre
2. Republican flourishing and imperial decline?
3. A fenre and its uses
4. Accius
5. Romans fighting Romans
6. Stages old and new
7. Imperial Praetextae
Part II. The Octavia
8. A Praetexta?
9. Time and place
10. Plot and historical background
11. Octavia and the people
12. Seneca and Nero
13. The ghost, the divorce, and the wedding
14. What Poppaea saw
15. The revolt, the fire, and the ship of death
16. The time of writing
Part III. The Afterlife
17. Tragic pasts.