Actors in the Audience : : Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian /

Actors in the Audience : : Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian / / Shadi Bartsch.

When Nero took the stage, the audience played along--or else. The drama thus enacted, whether in the theater proper or in the political arena, unfolds in all its rich complexity in Actors in the Audience. This is a book about language, theatricality, and empire--about how the Roman emperor dramatize...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Bartsch, Shadi,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1994
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:Revealing Antiquity , 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (309 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • I. THE EMPEROR‘S AUDIENCE: NERO AND THE THEATRICAL PARADIGM
  • 2. THE INVASION OF THE STAGE: NERO TRAGOEDUS
  • 3. OPPOSITIONAL INNUENDO: PERFORMANCE, ALLUSION, AND THE AUDIENCE
  • 4. PRAISE AND DOUBLESPEAK: TACITUS‘ DIALOGUS AND JUVENAL'S SEVENTH SATIRE
  • 5. THE ART OF SINCERITY: PLINY‘S PANEGYRICUS
  • EPILOGUE
  • APPENDIX 1. THE “CENA TRIMALCHIONIS” AS THEATER
  • APPENDIX 2. DID MATERNUS DESTROY VATINIUS THROUGH HIS PLAY?
  • APPENDIX 3. [LONGINUS‘] ON THE SUBLIME §44 AND MATERNUS‘ EULOGY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • REVEALING ANTIQUITY

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