<i>Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy</i> is the reader's 'back stage pass' into the hustle and bustle, the sights and sounds of Roman tragedy, stressing the creative collusion of Republican and Imperial drama and with the historical moment they...
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Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy is the reader's 'back stage pass' into the hustle and bustle, the sights and sounds of Roman tragedy, stressing the creative collusion of Republican and Imperial drama and with the historical moment they inhabited
Contents; Editor's Foreword; Author Summaries; Part 1 Republic; Editing Roman (Republican) Tragedy: Challenges and Possible Solutions; The Argo Killed Hippolytus: Roman Tragedy in the (Meta-)Theatre; Roman Tragedy-Ciceronian Tragedy? Cicero's Influence on Our Perception of Republican Tragedy; 240 BCE and All That: The Romanness of Republican Tragedy; Part 2 Empire; The editio of Roman Tragedy; Rhetorical Tragedy: The Logic of Declamation; Seneca on the Fall of Troy; Seneca's Thyestes and the Political Tradition in Roman Tragedy; Part 3 Interchange with Other Genres
Epic Elements in Senecan TragedyThe Reception of Latin Archaic Tragedy in Ovid's Elegy; Tragic Rome? Roman Historical Drama and the Genre of Tragedy; Roman Tragedy and Philosophy; Theatrical Language and Philosophical Issues in Seneca's Tragedies: Cued and Unannounced Entrances (Especially Oedipus 81 and 784); Roman Tragedy through a Comic Lens; Part 4 Seneca after Antiquity; Schlegel, Shelley and the "Death" of Seneca; Seneca Tragicus in the Twentieth Century: Hugo Claus' Adaptations of Thyestes, Oedipus and Phaedra; T.S. Eliot's Seneca; Afterword
A Day at the Races Theatre: The Spectacle of Performance in the Roman EmpireBibliography; General Index; Index of Ancient Authors and Passages
