The Roman stage
Subtitle: a short history of Latin drama in the time of the Republic
By: [by] W. Beare.
Edition: [3d ed., rev.]
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 1964
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Latin drama -- History and criticism; Theater -- Italy -- Rome
Notes: Bibliography: p. 377-384.
Table of contents: title: The aim, the method and the problems -- The Italian origins of Latin drama -- Llivius Andronicus and the coming of literary drama to Rome -- Naevius -- Plautus : life and list of plays -- Greek new comedy -- The famous plays of Plautus -- Plautus : treatment of his originals -- The general character of Roman tragedy -- Pacuvius -- Comedy after the death of Plautus -- Terence -- The other composers of Palliatae -- Accius -- Native comedy : the fabula togata -- Popular farce : the fabula atellana -- The literary atellana -- The mime -- The Latin prologues and their value as evidence for theatrical conditions -- The organization of the Roman theatre -- Seats in the roman theatre -- The spectators -- The stage and the actors’ house -- Costumes and masks -- The Roman origin of the law of five acts -- Music and metre -- Epilogue : drama under the empire -- Appendix A : seats in the Greek and Roman theatres -- Appendix B : side-entrances and iiepiaktoi in the Hellenistic theatre -- Appendix C : the angiportum and Roman drama -- Appendix D : crepidata, palliata, tabernaria, togata -- Appendix E : the Roman stage curtain -- Appendix F : change of scene and change of scenery: the question of ‘sets’ -- Appendix G : the doors shown on the stage -- Appendix H : passages in ancient authors supposed to refer to stage scenery -- Appendix I : the introduction of masks on the roman stage -- Appendix K : contaminare and ‘contamination’ -- Appendix L : the oxyrhynchus mime -- Appendix M : accent, ictus and rhythm: the metres of Latin drama -- Appendix N : the so-called ‘phlyax’ vase-paintings of south Italy as evidence for staging -- Appendix O : the meaning of xopot -- Appendix P : Plautus, Terence and Seneca: a comparison of aims and methods -- Notes and sources -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index to lines of Latin plays -- Key to the meaning of metrical terms.